I have started using bots and to be honest it kind of feels like we are all sitting around blogging and just voting ourselves up for a few free SP.
Seems a little pointless .... unless of course it does help you get more readers, followers and/or upvoters.
Ill try the bot method for a while but I also hope it eventually becomes a thing of the past.
At the end it is up to us to go out and engage with others. I mean the SP are not free you used your SBD for it to make the bot vote on your post. Soemtimes you would even better be off to just bought Steem with it becuase you make a lost as often too many people bid in one round.
I like blogging here and reading other peoples stuff and I like the idea I can support them and get support from others like a big happy family.
You pay for the SP with your time and effort so it is not really free if you value your time
Yes true, the time is a cost. Happy steemiting @flipstar :-)