Bid bots will be around here for a long time. Primary because of the greed that drives their owners and secondly the need of advertising from steemit users. It's much easier to pay for votes and hit the trending page rather than write an article and get there only by your followers upvotes. At the beginning I was naive enough to believe that these articles were pushed to trending page by "real" curators, but I was soon disappointed. If it was me to decide whether to have bid bots on Steem I wouldn't allow them, but that's not the case so I use them from time to time to increase my reputation. Otherwise my posts are worth 10-15 cents. I am not a professional blogger so I don't have high expectations but I've seen a lot of crappy posts voted blindly with tens of sbd by bots. It'a all about the money. No one would do this for free otherwise.
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You should ask yourself, what kind of reputation has value if it can be bought?
Perhaps real curators will enter the market once more.
I hope so. Let's have a Steem playground full of humans passing the ball of rewards all over the field!