Steemit has been having tons of problems today and multiple node failures. I took down the bot when I noticed it wasn't bidding and changed some of the nodes to more private unknown ones and it came back upvoting. The window got skewed by a few minutes, but I cannot control how the nodes behave. Steemit.com has been down a lot today and many services are failing as a result of the nodes.
There is nothing unethical going on, I'm busting my ass to provide a quality service and support people who have issues, but all this downtime is causing a lot of problems. @buildawhale has been up for 99% of the downtime.