Bid bots could've still filled their 'promotional' role by declining rewards.
The post still trends, the true value of trending slots is determined, and the impact on the rest of us is zero.
But heaven forbid, I got kicked from 2 discord servers because of that idea.

While I have you, stake splitting doesn't make 10 accounts equal one big account when the reward curve is superlinear, yes?
If this is in fact the case, put me down on the side of bringing back the nsomething with a (negotiated) influence cap.