Hi Captain, thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts. I want to highlight that what amount of the post you see is not a reward, that's invested steem and ROI over it which can be negative and positive. It is going negative from last two days if you observe www.steembottracker.com
e.g. if you put Steem of $75 worth and get an upvote of $100 from bots that don't mean that you have got a $25 that actually means you are in the loss as 25% of $100 is going to be shared in curators that leaves you with $75. If while receiving vote you got negative ROI from bot than that $75 will result in $70 or 72 for positive ROI it can go up on your investment.
I am not sure if you have ever tried bot or not so that is why I am sharing this fact.
But:
a) This article doesn't deserve to be trending
b) it is still taking out a huge junk from the reward pool, and this is missing somewhere else (the rewardpool is limited)
so: it's not nice style
Use bidbots if you like, but not to that extend.