thanks for the very real honest recap of your experience. The whole bot situation really makes me question steemit in general sometimes. When ever money is involved people will always find ways to abuse it. I just hope that in time they will be shunned out of the community and only real genuine content like yours and mine will be rewarded. I could be wrong about the usefulness of these bots but as of now I just don't see the benefit. Wishing you lots of crypto-prosperity @aarellanes I relate this to art (which I find myself doing with most things in my life) lol before that one masterpiece there were 100's of awful drawings that no one cared about ;D not to say no one cares about your lower rewarded posts at all. Just saying persistence pays.