Bidbots, like many technologies, are a double edged sword. On one side, they can be used to reward valuable content beyond what someone is able to provide with a simple upvote. The problem is when people start buying votes strictly to profit. This is unscrupulous, as the rewards in the pool are supposed to be doled out at the discretion of users who enjoy or dislike a particular piece of content, *not* the user who created it. 

When you buy votes on your own post, for any reason, you are cheating the system. Even if it is for "visibility", you are cheating the algorithm that determines what should be on the hot and trending pages. Those pages literally mean nothing anymore because of all the vote buying that goes on... Those pages *should* be filled with really good content that the ***community*** has decided is valuable. Instead, all you see on those pages is BS that's been pumped full of artificial engagement.

Clearly, the owners of every bid bot on Steemit give not a single care for the way these systems are supposed to work, because if they did, they would create an environment that encourages people to engage with *each other*, not themselves.