First thank you for the interview - awesome job! :)
I just want to add with all this positive talk about the voting bots (of which I certainly share most of what is said), there are also big downsides. One being, that the more people who use the bots, the lesser the ROI gets - most of the bots already deliver a -ROI and chances to see the trending charts also get less and less. Especially when I see many people just posting some random meme, invest zero work in their post and send voting bots to these useless, spam posts.
The voting bots are only an advantage, if not everyone uses them and the people who do use them, have put legitimate work into their posts.
I feel the need to put this out, since I see the tendency of big fish becoming blind to these issues, because if you are able to put huge amounts of SBD into the bots, these things don´t matter so much, as for the rest 99% of people here.