Bid Bots are filling the need for more active curators on the platform (not talking about the people who are being greedy dicks, but maybe more so from my experience when using them). Maybe I'm just a terrible writer and maybe I don't understand what a good writer is, but seeing people write amazing posts and get little payouts sucks.
OCD is on break and I've heard Currie is possibly losing a large delegation. A lot of whales are powering down as they've lost faith in the platform and were more than likely not curating anyways.
Add this in to not having a great way to filter content besides this site which I didn't know about until a few weeks ago, the best way to get noticed is to make it to hot or trending.
If you want to focus your frustration at something get to the root of the problem and focus it on lack of good content curators on the platform and the fact that there is no great way to get more eyes on good posts within the platform.
This is one advantage that youtube creators have over Steem creators. You don't have to have a youtube account to earn money for the creator. I don't know if it does much good spending time sharing your content outside of Steem as they have to create an account to reward you and even then they'll probably only be rewarding dust at this point in the market.
agreed :)
Improved content discovery is the aim, but so too is improved proof of brain distribution. Bid bots are an exploit that makes this situation worse, not better.