RE: If you don't use the bidbots then the shitposters will win!
90% of the time people use my bot they make a profit, even after factoring in curation rewards. If you think I'm the only one winning, I pay 35,000 steem a month, all the bids get paid back to cover rent. The people using my bot are making out far better than I, I wish I could use my own bot but I won't because of ethical reasons.
Bots are not supposed to be money printing machines, they are supposed to be promotion, but a lot better than "Promote" where you throw up to $300 to get on the top of promoted and get nothing back. Even if you get a loss on the immediate vote back, you will almost always make more in the end due to being on the hot page, our PreVote club, our daily Curation Digest, or the Author of the Day. Even without any of those value adds, having $1-$10 votes on your post will attract far more readers, followers, and votes than $0.01.
This concept that "having 1-10" will attract more- is a false assumption. I dont look at numbers until after i have read a piece and i dont find thrm based on numbers because i never look at "hot" or "trending" id love to have a steemian survey to see how ppl find posts and what makes them upvote because everyone thinks theyve got it figured out and that pretending to be getting rich is what makes you more rich. I disagree. i think it might boom you for a minute until ppl see that you sux. This is why whales do giveaways . "Oh now im helping you" meanwhile some of those sam ppl will flag you to nothing for having a dissagreement. Idk which bot is yours because i only use free ones. Frankly , i think actual advertising services are better than trying to understand bots as a creative. I just keep trying to do my thing and if serious shitposting prevails (cuz we all know that shitposting is a debateable term) then the site will tank and we all get screwed. So its YOUR job to protect your investment and my job to write and curate well.