@designeffort I actually never clicked on the Promote Button. I guess i had seen it before but never got drawn in.
I also agree with you 100% about the comments. My favourite thing to do on steem is to go to the new or hot sections of #permaculture , #homesteading , or #steem and read good articles and comment on them. I love findig stuff that peaks my interest and then seeing if the author or other steemians will engage in a dialogue with me. I guess its true that the bot comments would just clutter it all up. Nice Gif too!!!