You just need to consider one thing! Bidbot services are actually are an after-effect, a symptom if you will, of lack of support!!! If everybody was getting support they deserved for quality content - although we can hardly agree on what it is - then bidbot owners would be cut out overnight!
If people get pennies for a well-written and well-researched article, then what are you expecting them to do? At the end of the day nobody wants to waste their time for something than can't be justified financially!
Them MAIN issue is lack of SP trickling down from those, who have it! Solve this problem and everything's gonna become a wonderland... but we know very well it cannot happen yet for the OBVIOUS REASONS!
There is no such thing as lack of support. Nobody owes you any support at all.
I just post what I feel like and am happy about every upvote. I do never think that any of my content deserves anything. It also does not matter if I spend one hour on a post (which I sometimes do) or 5 minutes (which I sometimes do)
LOL... yes, because everyone should have the support from others, as if it's owed to them? No, it has to be earned. How about working at building a brand name for yourself and putting in the time, effort, energy, dedication, determination and persistence to get the support? It's not given willy-nilly. Real support has to be earned by people appreciating or valuing your content. Not buying votes to play on weak psychology of popularity in the trending page for people to pile onto the curation bandwagon.
By supporting bidbots, you support whales who delegate to bots or run them to not go out and look for content to curate and spread the SP. More and more wealth goes into their pockets because you buy votes, and they get ucration rewards anyways, without lifting a finger to do any work. Get it yet?
I don't think you're getting my point. I'm with you on earning, building, gaining... whatever. But the social-economic structure of steemit really pushes you towards only ine solution if you drop using bots, and that's circlejerking :) I mean we can keep pretending it's about community bla bla, but we all know it's about money and hierarchy.
You can get shitloads of human followers among these 65.000 active ones, but at the end of the day if you keep getting dozens of dust upvotes from plankton users it's not gonna cut it, cause the only ones that matter are these done with high upvote power.
I'm sure you get plenty of upvotes from plankton, but the ones that let you earn are from high SP accounts and I can bet a lot of people have you on autovote... and it's all good, you've been here for a while and you earned it, but you came in a different time, and now reality's very different!
I see a lot of valuable IMO posts, that earn pennies, although at the market price they should earn more... but then isn't the market price what the market is willing to pay? Well yes, which means if you can sway it your way, you're gonna get it right. And that's what steemit comes down to, you have enough power and crypto to push your content to the top and you circlejerk, you're gonna be a winner.
Sure, high quality content is hard to argue. We can evaluate it with golden standards of art, literature, journalism and blogging, but without a few whales/sharks/dolphins having your back it's meaningless!
And that's what I mean by no SP trickling down. Yes everybody prefers selling their votes or delegating, cause nobody gives a shit about integrity! But am I complaining? No, I'm just pointing at a fact!