The never ending fight over steem dollars needs you. For a year now, the bidbots has tightened the grip on the joy of giving. Bidbots do just that by amassing vast amounts of steem power that can be used to boost payout for just about any shit the average steemer decides to put out there.
and what it does
It is quite simple. It tags posts with bids in excess of $50 with a breakdown of what went to it and what can be expected as payout. Consumer friendly for the bidder -who risk not meeting the expected turnover and revealing for curators and readers.
The information on display is publicly available if you know how to look for it. But let's just face it: most don't want to check with an explorer and calculate it. And even if they knew, it would be time consuming.
The argument against
Boils down to basically one thing; it's revealing.
The straw arguments I have seen are:
- it is spam
- it clogs down the blockchain (!)
Well. We live in a ecosystem full of spammy bots. I could mention a dozen of them and so could possibly any user that has used Steemit for more than a month. And the argument would be valid if there was an uproar from the opponents against bots in general. But there isn't. So this straw argument is BUSTED.
The next argument: it clogs down the blockchain! That is serious, right? WRONG! It consumes about as much as what the bidbot did in the first place. So it makes no sense whatsoever.
it gets dirty
Apparently
So 
And you as consumer should realise that this of course is unacceptable.
is back online
This time with an improved feature: the ability to opt out if you don't want to know the breakdown of what you can expect for a bid in excess of $50.
Of course it's power and visibility is less than it used to be, due to heavy flagging from 
But the requested feature to be able to opt out was apparently not enough for
So clearly adding a opt-out function was not enough for the bidbot mafia.
What to do, what to do, what to do
first: unvote
second: don't use
third: support