Cleanup duty calls
Certain bid bots have been curating manually somewhat less frequently than a few weeks ago. That has a lot to do with smaller accounts being discouraged by retaliatory downvoting campaigns by certain persons. Possibly as a result of downvoting by smaller accounts being discouraged, I detected a few grossly over-rewarded pieces of content with what seemed to be purchased bot votes that most likely had positive ROI before the largest downvotes started raining on them. (Fear not, they seemed to be soft targets.) Time to flex your downvoting muscles, folks. They're still grossly overvalued, IMO. If you want bid bots to curate manually, you need to make sure votes are only being bought infrequently and always for paid promotion.
By the way, please show your support and give large upvotes to the victims of retaliatory downvotes whose earnings have been annihilated and who haven't yet been healed by the community:
If I have forgotten or am not aware of someone, please let myself and all the readers to know in the comments.
Again, if you consider it to be too risky to go after the largest circle jerkers, you can always delegate to 
Also, don't forget the possibility to purchase or transfer Steem Power to voting accounts OFF-CHAIN to gain power you can use to downvote whoever you please without any fear of retaliation and to earn with using a curation trail if you like.
End of PSA.