I understand that, unfortunately, due to the number of bids we receive due to the price of STEEM and the fact we can vote for over $1,000, the 1 SBD was causing out voting cycles to take 5-10 times longer.
There are lots of other bots that handle smaller bids gracefully, but with how much Steem Power we have it just isn't possible to keep a 1 SBD bid minimum.
I am working on a few new bots that work differently.