Awesome post! Can I just say, when you are promoting upvotes through bid-bots, that if the total bid is greater than the voting power of the bot, then you lose money. Not just you lose money either, your high ranking bid makes everyone in that round of bidding lose money. It is a simple formula: If the total bids are less than the voting power of the bot, then you make a profit (keep in mind the 25% that goes to the curators). So there you have it! Just check the total bid value against the bots total bidding power and make sure the total bids add up to less than the total voting power and you will have a winner! Adding stupid high value last minute bids to small value bots and you lose money for everyone... either way you get to choose. Hope this helps in future?