Nice take on bots. Resteemed.
Well I personally don't use them since I love to leave a comment to "explain" my voting decision to the author (like I'm doing it right now :-)). Bots wouldn't be able to help me here. So I'm rather one of these old school curators that vote manually, haha!
With regards to the blog (free vs. WP). I've got a WordPress blog, too, since you can't do any effective affiliate marketing here on steemit. Many of the embed codes from sites like Amazon are blocked by steemit's UI. So if you want to fully monetize your content on all levels, then it's actually a good strategy to have both a steemit and a WP account.
PS: Good looking burgers! Well done, @iamjamie :-)
Wow thanks @surfermarly, you've no idea how much I appreciate your words! I totally get you and the value of the personal "human" touch is priceless. I like old school too, well if I liked school.. but there again perhaps there is something in balancing the new bot enabled school with the manual style?
Your points on WP vs Steemit are interesting, I too have a WP that I've kinda neglected since Steemit came along. I had no idea about the Steemit UI blocking thingy.. very interesting as I haven't had a problem with it and I did a bit of affilate marketing on here. Hmmn perhaps I shouldn't mention that? Any bots listening?
Anyway I appreciate you very much and pleased to see you didn't leave after all, I think I saw that the last time I wandered over to your timeline?
Thanks for nudging @iamjamie too lol, the more mentions the more encouragement for her to hit post! :)