I understand your opinion of too many rewards on this post. Most of them are from me using bid bots. As much as I appreciate upvotes they are never really deserved.
I also wish bot votes were somehow detached from rep and trending page.
I do hope they change this system. Hate the game not the player.
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At least your posts have some value and engagement. I just choose to not buy many votes or self vote. I have used the Steem Monsters votes for DEC scheme to justify playing the game. That's just the odd dollar. I'm happy enough with what I make.
The new bots that take Tokens (or soon SMTs) are great, in those cases, it is up for the community to decide. With Steem it is the main coin and I imagine they will slowly change it so the only real way to make money off it is staking/inflation.