Thank you! The voting bots, as they are implemented now, are pretty straightforward to use. There is some kind of commonly accepted "value per post" (V/P). If you push a short post too much above that inofficial V/P and land on the trending page you might get in the crosshairs of a angry whale. But if you stay reasonable then the voting bots are more or less paying for themselves. So you are rewarding your readers and gaining notoriety.
I am also quite intrigued by the idea of doing a collaboration precisely because of the complementarity. I'll try to come up with something fun.