Don't know how I feel about this. While you are being transparent about the upvotes being bots, I feel that this type of thing just perpetuates everything that is wrong with content creation these days. If a post, article, website or other media is not engaging enough to have natural upvotes or views, it doesn't need to be falsely lifted… I've always had issues with this type of thing, but I won't blame OP for the hustle. Big dog gotta eat, I guess.