I always do it manually, mostly because quite honestly I don't even understand how bots work?

I love steemit for both too, the community and the money, although I don't make very much on mine (but yesterday I got such a large number of votes and it was so exciting, it just makes me want to do even better posts!)

As someone who is pretty solitary by choice and I work at home AND I live in the country, it is not always easy to be around other artists. I did all the other social media but it was never like it is on here. On Steemit I really feel excited to see and connect and find new artists. It's great and of course add in the money and it's like a fun job you want to go to!

I always write probably too much in my comments. I comment quite a few times a day and usually it's pretty long. Sometimes I am just admiring a piece of art and I only need to say a few things, so I hope it doesn't come off as if I am just saying something short and fishing for upvotes back? I hope not as I truly just vote and comment on things I genuinely feel drawn too.

Wonderful reflections over your coffee. And I am sipping my coffee as I write this back, so it's like we are at a coffee clatch (that is a new england/usa term for chatting over coffee ;) )