Oh I'm guilty of using them and trying to play catch up to all the larger accounts on here. Really want to get myself to a point where my online/digital income streams allow me to travel the world. Goal right now is a 2 year time frame and I'm not counting on steemit for any of that. Would be amazing to grow this to something that would be an additional stream of income to make these travels even more enjoyable. So using the bots to push posts up made sense to me. But these numbers are truly mind blowing. Talk about the rich get richer.