Probably wasn't worth trying to res the other post as it was hit with a full -100% from a vote bot with over 1m SP

Bid bots are bad as they inherently undermine proof of brain - a system where votes are meant to be an honest reflection of the voters subjective valuation of the content.

Bid Bots effectively takes those voting rewards meant to incentivize the content creator (author rewards) and redistributes it between the stakeholder, bid bot owner and vote buyer, leading to profit maximization voting behavior that's indifferent to content.

Note that after the economic reform we wish to reach an equilibrium where every stakeholder settles for roughly 50% returns in honest curation and keep each other in check with potential downvotes. Bid bots undermine this process by offering far higher staking returns at the cost of content indifferent voting behavior which is damaging to the entire ecosystem as a whole. If vote sellers are getting 80-100% returns selling to bid bots, what does that make the rest of us trying to curate content honestly and only getting 50%? Idiots? Suckers?

Notice this problem exists irrespective of the content quality of the post buying the votes. Because if over time most stakeholders settle for 80-100% returns selling their votes, then gradually very little good honest votes are being cast. This inevitably leads to the gradual deterioration of content quality platform wide as its creation is no longer being incentivized.

That's why I'm fairly strongly against vote selling and believe if it continues to exist at this scale it'll completely destroy any possibility of a Proof of brain system.