but you are not using the SBD to buy steem power, cos it keeps going back to the bots.

lets just say to spent 100 SBD last month on bots. If you spent this on STEEM instead, then you would have gotten about 85 SP, which is worth a $.02 vote. voting ten times a day, this would have increase the amount you distributed to the community by 6 SP and your curation rewards of 1.5 SP. How much did you make using the bots that you did not send back to them?

The internal market has no fees, so you can convert your sbd to SP and grow your account organically