Everyone needs to remember that for every vote made, all other votes are valued less. There is a finite rewards pool, and it decreases for every vote that is made during the day. Too many votes from these bots will only decrease the value of your reward from the bot.
By everyone using these bots, and some people to a ridiculous extreme, it's a guarantee that your received votes will all count for less at the end of the day!
Yes that is true. It wasn't so noticeable when the payouts were on 1 day cycles. I still think it was an awful idea to change to 7 days before resolving the post-lifetime issue. Now it's like, you spend a few hours on a post, then a few hours later it's on like 5 dollars, then for the rest of the week you watch it slowly go down to 3. Makes no sense at all to be using 7 day cycles when only trending posts really get seen for longer than a day.