Hive account@calumam thanks for your remarks, as you know I'm really new on this platform and learning a ton about it especially by replies like this.

So first of all, I spend around 2 hours per post creating outlines, recording and editing my video and writing my actual post.

I've looked up tons of videos on how to do well on steemit and most of them advised up vote bots which is why I have used them, and as far as I can tell this has worked.

Now I notice a lot of resentment and people that don't like the bots. So this is something that I will take into consideration in the future.

I hope you can explain to me though why these bots are on here if you 'are not allowed to use them for promotion'. Or why it is being frowned upon so much to promote your post? Because I see people promoting their posts all the time yet no outrage in the comments.