I put hours into stuff trying to get an important message out there, or to write some really nice thoughtful fiction and people can use bots to pump 20 second posts? That's not fair to me or anyone else actually investing time and trying to make a difference, so if I continued doing that, having understood that, I wouldn't be any better. So I stopped. The bidbots must die, the only way to do that is to starve them apparently.
Yeah, it's a sad tale for the whole community. We are supposed to earn our way, and some people don't play that game. Some people put in time = work to try to earn their way, and others don't put in any work yet get rewards because of a fucked up system that in place...