lovely work you done very nice work

The problem I see with bots is where it will lead to in the end. We already see the crap that makes trending, damaging how Steemit is perceived by new visitors. 
 Why produce any good content on this platform when you can just buy your way to the top. It is also creating a new class of Whales that dont seem to have the health of this 'social media' experiment in mind.
I made a concsious decision to not vote for posts that use these sevices, prefering instead to support users who are trying to use steemit as it was intended. And not just a pay to play service.

Well.... using bots reduces the dependency on gracious orcas and whales ... 
@winstonalden was right. You basically get your money back, plus increase your steem power.
I honestly don't see why not to use them.
I have heard the arguments against it, but, at the moment, the dependency on the "big fish" (etc.) in much too big... and this does things to people.....  some people anyway.

you can actually use big boots. As SBD, you will get what you put into it. but in addition to it you will get a little sp. And it looks good. You can use certain boots to avoid getting wet. Now I've sent you a Bot .. "luckvotes" perhaps fortunate revenues;)

First of all, awesome art as usual. :)

Next, I have written about this topic extensively and I'm quite involved. I really think you should take a look at this article I wrote a while back. It will clear up many of your questions.

https://steemit.com/steem/@artopium/i-admit-i-use-the-upvote-bots-and-here-s-why

Also, note that I currently use bots to promote my posts but I don't think it's the best way to do things so I'm currently programming a new app called SteemAX that hopefully provides an alternative to using bots. Check out this article I wrote introducing SteemAX. 

https://steemit.com/steemit/@artopium/proposal-for-a-possible-human-to-human-upvote-exchange-program

ALSO, I currently run an upvote bot called @ArtTurtle. It's not a bid bot so no need to send it money. Instead it just upvotes every post made by anyone it's following. I'll have it follow you for a while. You'll notice ArtTurtle's upvotes starting today. Just give me (@artopium) an upvote here and there in return and I'll be happy. ;)

Hi, I started following you! I'll upvote your art!

talk about eyes glazing over!! ...??... it's all Greek to me.

I tried bots three times, barely broke even. I tried "whaleshares" once and would have made more by just selling the whaleshares than I made on the post BUT I timed that terrible. I bought my whaleshare vote and the next day steem took that epic dive. By the time the post paid out, I earned less on it than the whaleshares were worth on openledger.
It gets discouraging, I see people making TONS more than I do on every post, and sometimes it is OBVIOUS they spent very little time on it, but I try to compare my steemit to my facebook, and that helps.

You have a minor misspelling in the following sentence: <blockquote>You have recieved X% of upvote from @donnadavisart.</blockquote> It should be <i>received</i> instead of <i>recieved</i>.

I use smartsteem for upvote buying. Lately I’ve been getting upvotes worth almost or aproximatley 150% of what I sent to them. 20SBD was getting me an upvote worth around +40SBD so if we just do the math roughly, with a 50/50 payout then it’s 20 sbd reward plus the corresponding SP (I guess I lied about the math part)

Also see below comment and related post for some food for thought. 

https://steemit.com/steemit/@motoengineer/steem-is-stuck-in-a-underleveraged-state#@hrissm/re-motoengineer-steem-is-stuck-in-a-underleveraged-state-20180502t010830591z

You got a 12.35% upvote from @luckyvotes courtesy of @artizm!

Hi, first, love your art :)

The only bot I've found to actually be worth investing in/buying from is minnowbooster.

The others, I've found to be a lottery - which you will rarely win (some of the returns from the other bots are actually terrible when you figure in curation payouts).

At least with Minnow booster, you seem to make back your SBD payment, or very close to it, and then "make money" with the SP you earn from the post.

I don't see these bid bots as a way of making money (the only people who do that are the whales who run them, unfortunately). Rather, I see them as a way to get exposure - both for an individual post, and your channel as a whole.

If I invest $10SBD and get $10SBD back, a little SP, and reach a few more people in the process, I think that's a good trade-off.

But to really make a difference, you have to bid enough that your post hits the Trending, or Hot page for whichever category you're posting in (for Art, it's quite expensive) - then you can get a lot of exposure - which if your work is good (and I think yours is), using bots CAN be worth it.

Get to the trending page, you can get a lot of "non-paid" attention on your work, and on your channel.

This approach is fine for high quality work/posts, but is unfortunately abused by spammers too often on Steem. But that's another story for another day :)

Hope all this makes sense - and good luck :)

I have a curie curator friend. He could you have gotten you a curie a while ago if you weren't using bots.

AAAAaaahahahha I burst out laughing reading this:
> @winstonalden has explained it to me a few times, but I can feel my eyes glaze over as he goes on about it.

Been there lol!

In my honest opinion, I don't think you need to use bots. You are growing your blog organically and producing excellent quality posts. This is what I believe other like-minded steemians will want to follow and vote you for.

But hey, if you feel like using 1 or 2 every now and then, it's ok-ish. Just blame it on the androids 😉 (not your fault, they called their friends over)

edit: you could also use artzone as a tag (I think it helps get more exposure and votes - if you haven't tried already)

I suggest you to not use bots as a matter of principle. It is like paying someone to clap for your art.

Like you, I don't understand boys very well, but it seems like the best use of them is to spend enough to get you onto trending or hot tabs. 

If that happens then your post can see some organic exposure. Also, there are accounts that seem to follow regular big bot users who upvote their posts to ride in some easy curation rewards. 

The downside, in my opinion, is how it would change ME. I know I can be a little obsessive, and it would be easy for me to become dependent on bots and facilitate a feedback loop. It also would not feel good to know that my post values weren't representing actual support for my content.

It's a precarious thing to me so for this point in time I'm personally avoiding them. 

I AM going to follow you for your work, though. So there's that.

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Hi LOVE YOUR POST MAN!!! LIKE MY POST TOO!!!!! HERE IS THE LINK: https://steemit.com/bots/@abusereports/last-minute-upvote-list-2018-05-02 

Your singularity series is brilliant.

Given that Steemit is rapidly turning into mostly bots, I suppose it doesn't matter at this point.

I used to think there were more humans here - but now its obvious its multiple accounts doing their best to drain the Reward Pool at the expense of everyone else.

That's why I think Steemit is flawed. People take advantage of any system, and Steemit is too easy to take advantage of. Shame really, but the developers haven't done much to address it.

Beautiful art

As to using BotsI know a lot of people do and I guess it must make them a little more and I dont have a thing against people using them as such but I am not sure I like the concept of them so I personally choose not to use them myself