I likewise have stayed away from anything that smacked of the gaming of the system, even delegation of votes, but recently I've been busy writing grants, and even getting some clients, and so my Steemit activity has dropped off. I sort of blew it off, thinking "With the price so low, what does it matter?" But something is better than nothing, so when you do fire up the bots, please write about that process so I can up-vote it (and then take mercenary advantage by copying what you did). ~ :^{)>