I support using upvoting bots especially on your posts that you have put some time in and feel strongly about. It is a way to give it a boost. You are still contributing to the community with your quality content. It is when you copy and paste something that you shouldn't be using the upvote bot. If you take the time to create something yourself, then reward yourself.
This is interesting @ptmikesteem, I'm not sure we are talking about the same type of bot here? The ones I was referring to in my post are those that help you post upvotes to designated users if and when they post new content. I feel that seems fairly benevolent.
However it only just occurred to me, through the wording of your comment that of course there must be other bots out there that do other less stand up procedures like "boosting" your posts or something of the like? Perhaps by deploying a army of fake accounts or something like that? Not sure if that's real or not, hopefully not giving any dodgy coders any ideas now lol.
Oh and btw fellow PTI here too, I served 7 years with 1PWRR as a class 2 instructor and trained with the PT corp under the Army Boxing Team. I'll check out your feed, happy to meet someone else in the biz of helping others succeed! :)