Thanks for adding to the clarity of the debate going on at the moment.
(well, it clarified things a lot - for me, anyway)

In your opinion - IF you are here as a steemit.com user, without any conscience of seeing it as a platform for growth, creatively speaking - just for the $ ( I am most definitely not in that camp, btw) - would you think it is a sound strategy for using upvote/delegation bots etc?

Personally, I think steemit would be better without any bots whatsoever, but keeping it in the realm of what IS and not HOW we would like to see it...

While there are all these bots - is it a sound strategy?
(you are the steemit genius, compared to the steemit dunce I am, when it comes to these issues, so would like your view on this matter.)

To be honest, I cant work out what the best strategy is...

If steemit is headed 'south', in terms of being a creative content platform
(of which I am - depressingly - seeing it becoming), does it not make pure economic sense to avail yourself of these bots,( if it maximizes earnings)?

You perspective would be greatly appreciated on this.
Cheers