RE: How to get more out of Minnowsupport and PALnet: why community is more important than bots!
Great post @juliakponsford! After blogging for ten years I learned how much community means. In the 'non-steem' realm of blogging it was always called networking. Same thing, different name.
It has been groups like PAL that have helped me get my blog to where it is in just the short amount of time that I have been taking steem seriously. It is also PAL that supported my idea for my twice a week posts aim to help bloggers here on steem. If it was not for PAL those posts would never have done as well.
I don't self vote with the bots for a few reasons but one of which is that I don't delegate. I feel that since I do not delegate I am taking without first giving. If a member of PAL chooses to use the bots on my post I feel that is ok since they would not have done so if my content did not bring them value.
<3 J. R.
Interesting perspective you have on the bots, to be honest I would be very happy if the people who were socially active used them as I feel that is certainly a very worthy contribution. I'm glad to see that PAL has helped give you some measure of success and it's great that you are making helpful posts! I'll add you to my mental list of resources for people who need guidance for their blogs :)
Always happy to help!