This is really interesting and one of the controversial topic of this platform, in my opinion and my view point towards Bid Bot is, it's an paid service where you want to promote your product (BLOG POST) and to get more exposure and to buildup the followership, and these kind of services are not new, promotion concept is an ancient concept and we should not look it as an negative, but we can make it more meaningful in aspect which you inform (Community Bots), and then the set of whale votes will going to spread effectively and as you said not only community members, other members also can get the upvotes now and then. And i want to wish good luck to you towards the experimentation of Small bid bots to understand the effectivity, and we really need analysis instead of negative words and false war on this topic and now you come up with an analytical experimentation. Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂