I've said all I can say about the bidbot issue in the past. All I'll really say now is: It's unfortunate that had to happen here. For the most part though, it's self inflicted harm. People are choosing to cause the damage. And since those folks obviously don't need my help and since they'd prefer to have a worthless value beside their work instead of a reward, I simply stopped voting for those posts. The way I see it, using bots turns the post into an advertisement, and I don't pay Walmart for leaving a flyer in my mailbox.