Another great thought provocking post @jenkinrocket. I am arriving at similar conclusions myself. It is very worrying for the platform that content creators need to resort to bots to get a return on their time investment. I also hoped i could use this platform in a way that my content would speak for itself without self voting and bots to give me a return but this is seeming a very difficult challenge as delegation of SP and bots leave me in the dust.. Your posts deserve much more exposure than they are currently getting. Resteemed. Hope to see you on the trending page very soon.