 Think of them just as cute little helper applications that can automate some processes for you. What I don't think people should get too wrapped up in is thinking, oh, I need a whole bunch of bots for my server right away. It's actually really cool to strip it down and have nothing except yourself and your interactions with your people for quite some time until you learn what it is that you need in order to enhance the experience for your members. I don't like automated welcome messages. I like to send people DMs that I've customized and yeah, I've got some automatic text and then I spice it up with whatever I know about them or something like that. And those little personal touches really mean a lot because of what you're trying to do. You're not trying to automate a product here. You're trying to foster relationships. So don't get too hung up on bots, but some of them can really help out and give you some fantastic features in your server.