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• Bid-bots are not necessary. In fact, they inspire users to take unfair means to get success.

We've got tags, we've got communities, we've got curation trails and probably some other means for content to be discovered. If people consistently used them, including the bigger fish, the desire to use bidbots would be less, and they would eventually die out on their own.

In order to truly promote a post, it needs to have somewhere between $150-$250 STU behind it to show up in the top top 20-30 postings on the trending page. That means having quite a bit of STEEM/SBD to throw at different bidbots in order to achieve that amount. The average user, which, by sheer numbers, is either going to be a plankton or a minnow, won't have that amount of STEEM/SBD available. So the ones who do are larger accounts that apparently no one wants to read, since everyone seems to complain that they see the same old trash posts all the time.