That was bad luck and it shouldnt have happened. Anyone to flag your post because you used bots to promote it is wrong and injustice.Because you used the accepted service on steemit.Steemit is now the community like anyother communities offline, the difference is that steemit is online. In any community promotion services is accepted as we see bill boards on the roads and adverts everyhere.
There is no point to stop Apple advertising iphones because they getting more profits than the other brands or local brands even if the quality of the local is better.Same apply to all other brands ,some brands are local and they get high profit without promotions .
Other words you cant stop china manufacturing and selling the goods because they are making more profit than your products with high quality.
Anyway , if they dont want people to use the bot ,why they dont shutdown the bot while they know them, instead they find it reassonable to downvote or flag the work of innocent user of the bot services.
I have been since December last year but wasnt that good at all because there were few and same people enjoying the benefits and making high profit on the steemit, you like it or not ,they were the winners. Is this what they want? I am sure this is not how decentralised platform works.
But since the bot service got better now I see many and different people on the trending.This how it should be.
If they want to run Steemit as a single family media,they should make it clear so people could understand it.
The promotion is on many biggest media, Facebook ,insta, and on ,no one will stop you to use the services for such kind of reasons.

They dont want the bots, they shut down the bots. Otherwise they will put blames on innocent users who pay for that .

Thank you for sharing this .
You have my surpport ! Use bots as long as they are shutdown.