I started a similar rant (& counter-rant) yesterday... triggered by a post that @therneau made on whether or not Steemit would be a good place to "invest" millions of $s (assuming he had the $ to do so :P).

That post is sitting on about 3 pages of back and forth, less-than-to-the-point babbling... I'm still gonna try turn it into a post... but in case I don't... I just want to add my 2 cents on bid-bots:

edit: I just wrote another 2 page comment reply here... no more coherent than my draft post... so my full "2 cents" will have to wait until when/if I get to that post.

In short: Don't hate the player, hate the game :P (and use the same rules that make it suck to make it work - or decide to play elsewhere).

• Humans will human, and most humans are selfish assholes. Don't expect/design for anything less.
• Bots aren't a problem, and will be a good thing in future once legit users start using them (when we the other users stop thinking of just ourselves).
• If you've invested millions into Steemit, you should be allowed to do with it as you see fit... but the community should be too without fear of retribution.
• p.s. Check out @SteemFlagRewards - you can get rewarded for flagging.
• and now recently @bid.bot (to read about @flag.bot) - I haven't checked it out properly myself yet, but sounds promising.

Oh yes... BTW: I found this post because of your post on curation groups/guilds and wanted to say thank you over there, but now I'm here :-)
... a few cool sounding ones over there that I didn't know about ;-)