RE: To Bot or not to Bot...seriously, that is my question
Hi, first, love your art :)
The only bot I've found to actually be worth investing in/buying from is minnowbooster.
The others, I've found to be a lottery - which you will rarely win (some of the returns from the other bots are actually terrible when you figure in curation payouts).
At least with Minnow booster, you seem to make back your SBD payment, or very close to it, and then "make money" with the SP you earn from the post.
I don't see these bid bots as a way of making money (the only people who do that are the whales who run them, unfortunately). Rather, I see them as a way to get exposure - both for an individual post, and your channel as a whole.
If I invest $10SBD and get $10SBD back, a little SP, and reach a few more people in the process, I think that's a good trade-off.
But to really make a difference, you have to bid enough that your post hits the Trending, or Hot page for whichever category you're posting in (for Art, it's quite expensive) - then you can get a lot of exposure - which if your work is good (and I think yours is), using bots CAN be worth it.
Get to the trending page, you can get a lot of "non-paid" attention on your work, and on your channel.
This approach is fine for high quality work/posts, but is unfortunately abused by spammers too often on Steem. But that's another story for another day :)
Hope all this makes sense - and good luck :)
Thank you for liking my artwork. And also, what a wonderful comment. So much good advice thus far. I think I will try to take some of the advice from some of you and try to work bots into my steemit life sometimes, but selectively so and not all the time maybe. A bit of give and take, maybe.
I have always asked the same question, despite reading several posts, I think I found a clearer answer here, at least for me, however I wonder, I make public with the intention that many people are encouraged to support me with a vote or comment, people who act as curators to see that the publication already has a payment associated with it, simply do not vote, I imagine they are dedicated to looking for quality publications and have no rewards, then I ask myself, why do I want recognition? If I like to grow up with organic vows, but apparently it's already a tendency to use them, so I'll use them more often.