I love your sincerity in writing this post; Saying what you think to being outspoken is a way to influence the right audience, without embellishing things just to be accepted. This is the truth, and whoever wants to run the race has to make an effort, like everything in life.

Excellent information for users in general but especially it´s very valuable for newbies, because that way we are locating and deciding from the beginning what we want to do in this platform.

Steemit looks like real life:

1. Regarding the idea of giving votes to your own publications, this is something completely logical, for example: the owner of a bakery will not stop eating his own bread just because he wants to be modest; On the contrary, he’s a prosumer, because he earns money while advertising his product because he is proud of it.

2. The theme of the bots is similar; In a traditional business, if you want to invest in publicity, you do it; it's marketing, in that world, in this one of cryptos and social networks and in any other, it's completely acceptable. (I do not know much about bots)

3. I understand from this post that there are two ways to get results, either by investing as in any business, or as those who do not have money to invest starting from below with work and talent.

4. Particularly I do not consider myself as an expert for now, I am simply learning what life itself is teaching me and always wanting to learn more and share what I have learned. As I wrote it in my introduction:

I was reading a bit before making my first post and so far I have encouraged to write it. In Steemit, I hope to meet cool people, learn a little bit of everything, grow as a person and add value to this community.

I'm really happy to be able to express myself in a space that promises to be much more than money, because although money is for everything, I read somewhere (and I agree) that if an activity only gives you money, it's just a poor activity, however, if you are going to pay me to do what I love, then: Steemit is CORDIALLY INVITED TO MY LIFE.

Thank you very much for your valuable advices, since we must also be sincere, we all seek to earn money and if someone with experience offers an orientation, be it welcome. Everything has a value and if you are investing time in creating quality content it is good to know the best way to get it paid fairly.

Thanks once again for this space, I hope to continue reading similar posts that guide and help debug and improve the platform so that visiting it is something very valuable.

Reesteem insured.