This is an interesting read @harshallele when I arrived at Steemit (more than a year ago) the money system and being bombarded with various requests put me off.

It took me eight months to return, I learned and read copious amounts on just how to work in Steemit, very time consuming.

Then people were sending amounts daily SBD0.001, asking you to use them for upvoting, bots arrived and that took another good period of time to learn (thank goodness for Discord and places I had accepted invitations to join.

Now bots are everywhere I doubt they can be taken off, certain of the guys building and developing communities with assisting others are in some cases checking your content before the invitation is sent out.

Having learned a bit more it is a difficult question, since some bots are really helping to boost you a little, with few whales around backing the upvotes, not much comes your way.... Irrespective of how original and good the content is.

An excellent place is to look as some of the post I have witnessed going into steemiteducation where folks are doing hours of work, with very little in return.

Sorry I am not able to give a solid answer to your question, thanks for an honest question to ponder.