I was here prior to bidbots and post bidbots and I promise you that bidbots completely ruined my steemit experience! I understand that you and other whales have a lot of steem invested in bidbots so you don't want to see them die but the truth is they were killing steemit regardless of how much money you and your whale buddies were making. Half or more of the bidbots were actually ripping people off, but people are so confused by numbers that they didn't understand that with all the variables (author rewards, curation rewards and volatile exchange rate) they were actually loosing money. There are better ways to make money off your steem investment that doesn't include ruining the steemit platform, sorry if they aren't as profitable..
Bidbots were the single worst idea that steemit.inc allowed to happen.. It not only ruined the trending section but it also ruined ranking and made it incredibly hard to find anything but spam on the blockchain for well over a year! It even made me completely change my habbits to continue earning post rewards because writing articles was no longer profitable for me even though I poured my heart into them. Basically anyone with a real post was just passed by and all their hard work went unnoticed.
There are a couple of reasons that I have never bought into the steem ecosystem, first and foremost is bidbots! Reason being is that they constantly sucked any kinds of profit and sustainability away from the steem blockchain ultimately driving the prices into oblivion during this last bear market, while simultaneously promoting terrible posts that no-one wanted to read completely ruining everything unique about the platform.
So if you really want to help steem and not just own wallet you would be happy that bidbots are being destroyed.. We can figure out a better way to promote posts that doesn't destroy the steem ecosystem... So as upset as I am about the new rewards system, I am ecstatic that bidbots are going to be a thing of the past. Let's make the #newsteem about the community again, not the fucking bidbots! Just sayin..