Having Humanist Anarchist sensibilities i.e. wanting to see many of today's dominance hierarchies flattened to the point they truly promote and represent meritocracies, I actually have a conceptual problem with the whole bidbot system, tbh.
My feeling is that, as it stands now, users need to use bidbots to 'gain traction', and thus spend more time and energy 'gaming the system' with bidbots than actually focusing on creating the highest quality content. Bidbots themselves are 'minor fiefdoms' very much arrived through the same thinking that brought us the corporate feudalism under which we live today.
Reading Ned Scott's
I see planned, What’s Coming in 2018, Communities (Hivemind), which I tend to think will more readily allow for organic growth versus gaming the system.
For one thing, bidbots are a 'shotgun' approach whereas communities will allow for growth in 'depth' at first, and I suspect a more efficient way for content originators to gain traction...