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What does success have to do with it? My entire assement of Steemit has to do with the quality of interaction with others who are here. Being new and unfamiliar it's disquieting to think that bots are allowed here. The names I mentioned have not come to defend themselves and honestly their behavior on this post seems mechanical and weird. I haven't even ventured to look at their profiles yet. I'm just not sure who or what to believe. It's hard to make heads or tails of things here. But I am against this idea of bots. It seems completely antithetical to the entire concept of how steem is valued.

bots are controlled by people, the crowd is probably korean or chineese, they have been advancing their aims for quite the while, personally I don't mind and it's not much different in comparison to other crowds, lots of people use autosteem to maximise curation rewards, some even game them :)

it's been going on for a year at least, bots are 50/50 here, some are good some are bad, mostly it's overused leading to abuse.

... stop finger pointing, I bet you use voting trails as everyone else, communication is key so add to the conversation, I can lash out and act high and mighty just as well, that's besides the point, the question was about voting bots, btw I was one of the first people to follow haejin, well he found me first but anyways that's also besides the point, if you think you have any say out of those 6k people you have mentioned you can make your point seen and ideas taken into account.