Marketing is always going to be a 'necessary evil' in my mind, especially with the flood of content we are exposed to. Whether we like it or not certain things grab people, like clickbait. But at least that is a human to human connection, where even it is based around a shared goal rather than content, is beneficial to all parties and ideally enhances motivation.

I don't believe that pandering to a 'unintelligent' bot algorithm (as dan stated it) creates this same connection when the content of a post isn't digested. This hopefully can change if/when the bots get better in determine quality in (what I view) as a more meaningful way as well as provide some honest feedback on behalf of the bot owner.

Again, just my view on things