The primary intent is to sell a service for others to get more payout on their posts, and that's the primary goal for people to use the bots, no? The advertising in secondary.

What is steem if this is applied as an aggregate methodology? Rather than upvote what we like, we don't offer any free upvotes,a nd we all charge for our upvotes. What does the platform look like then? Why give away free upvotes when others are charging for theirs and making money doing so?