Being new to Steem, there is a lot to learn.

Bots I feel confuse the process. Bots seem like an other thing to do while on here besides just posting quality content.

I wonder what the affect of bot will be on the quality of the content. If people just post simple, easy and quick post and use bots to boost them, will STEEM become a waist of time? Will it become a way to mine crypto without truly contributing to the community?

However, if the community is not active enough to make posting worth while, then people will leave and stop posting.

Where is the balance between actively engaged community members responding to posts and using bots to get the posts noticed?