In many cases it is the only indirect route to the owners. I'm not a fan of Blind downvote of promoted content.

However, haven't the bidbot owners gotten in the habit of blind upvoting content? And expecting the community to clean up behind them?

This is just a reaction, when they have a better business model and show more responsibility to the community the dislike of them will not be as strong.

We should target the users of the most offensive bots. Their customers (the good ones) Will use more responsible bots to support. Then we kill the worst and save those who hold value in the community.

In turn, the delegators will move their stake to the good bots that manage to find a way to do less damage.

I like to say, vote with your dollars, in this case... Vote with your vote. Do not support witnesses or bots that do not have a stated standard and a plan for removing bad votes.

The idea that because it is subjective it can't be done is lazy and bullshit.

The dislike the community has towards the bidbots is a direct response to the way they have conducted themselves.

They need to run some PR and clean up their act. Whining isn't going to help them