The last week or so my wife and I have been experimenting with these bots, using the site you have listed to follow the values etc etc and we found that unless a person wants to be in the "HOT" listings for what ever reasons they are not really worth the effort.
Sometimes the calculator on the site seems to be out of whack as far as timing goes, but that happens like once in 50 checks or once in a hundred checks and it sucks when it happens when deciding what bot to use when trying to post and botvote soon after.
Experimenting is over and done with now, now comes the week when we check the final results.
Interesting. I would like to know what happens. I'm doing using them to:
The bots are huge win for me on all counts. I do not use them in the first couple of days. I think "trending" and "hot" are not worth my effort since I never look at them myself.