Thanks for writing this post. As a newbie minnow, I've been trying to wrap my head around how I feel about bots in general.

I especially like your reasoning here: "If I make a post that is one thousand or more words and every reader tells me it's amazing but the post is now lost in the feed, then a bid bot is a way to promote that post."

I think I still have a lot to learn before I use bots, but this gives me food for thought. Cheers!