I totally agree...I believe a lot of the issues stem from using private bot services. It allows anyone to get up on that page by just sending your SBD away and making other whales richer.
I just actually posted a video on this topic on DTube yesterday. I had tried bots before but felt icky and whack about them...I'm just into more organic reach.
I would love to see the promoted section function as an upvote service that burns SBD...that would be pretty cool :)