Don't look at negative things, bots are good for some people, not good for others. I don't use bots, and it's up to the community to use them or not, it's just a tool of promotion. But the applications built on steem blockchain are very supportive, so why we don't use them to grow and count only on whales to upvote us or to apear in trending or hot page. We have to grow our account and prove to the community that we are really useful for them. I know a lot of people that are growing very well and never used a bot ! So, it's up to us to make it a bot network or not !