The bidbots are the reason for the flak. Seems people have a hard time explaining that.

You figured on this page as one the largest rewards made by bidbot votes: https://steemwhales.com/clean-trending/

I won't downvote you this time, seems you suffered enough, but I did make this link-image to explain why I am using my downvote (and I plan to do so against posts like this). Hopefully it gets the message through a bit better. Liked your post :) Cheers.