So I had a thought the other day about the upcoming hardfork. The new voting curve should not change anything in regards to bots but the change in voting power should. If I read it correctly, the update will not be giving you the option to vote with 4x power but will turn a 100% to a 4x power vote and if you want to vote with the same power you are voting with today you will have to lower your vote to 25%. If that is true, then all the voting bots will be voting with 4x voting power when the hardfork starts.
For people who use bots, this will drain your power quickly. The first 10 people who you support will not be complaining though :p. I recommend keeping an eye on it to see how it is effected by the change. Personally I will see what happens the first day and if my voting power drops, I will suspend the bot until it recharges and then reactivate it, as is, with everything at 25% of what it was. That means I will be back to what I was doing (at least until communities come). And since I'm talking about auto-votes, I might as well ask, if there is anyone using an upvote bot, please consider adding to your list. I work my butt off to bring exclusive work to this site, each one being at least 500 words and the SP will help me build the gaming community when it arrives.
For the people who are running the bot services, in case you haven't thought of it, maybe you can change your service so that it automatically sets all votes to a fourth of what they were. Maybe it already does it, or maybe you want people to activity change it, whatever you think is best, just throwing the idea out there.
And how are the people of steemit doing today?
*my upvotes/rep disclaimer: https://steemit.com/steemit/@whatageek/my-steemit-account-where-i-stand-on-bots-self-votes-and-multiple-account