Hi Hive account@johncrisologo,
Thank you very much for your comment. I think the upvote bots should be considered as tools which can be useful for some people. For example a company who wants to make the links in its posts visible for search engines ;-)

I can understant the people who delegate money to upvote bots. If they are not active on steemit, their steem power is not usefull. By delegating to upvote bots they can have a return on their investments and like that they leave their money in SP. Which is good for the whole community because if these whales were selling steem, the prices would go down.

As a conclusion I believe that upvote bots have a place on steemit but they shouldn't be used by most of the users because it drains their steem and sends it directly to the whales. People on steem should try to build up relationships and vote for each others content in a helping each other attitude. Well this is just my humble opinion :-)