I do not think bid bots will go away, it is a method that some use to advertise their blog, right or wrong, good post or bad post, people will still buy from them even at a 50/50 split. I think the reason for the 50/50 split is that the smaller accounts are voting more and more often for people that are in per-say their neck of the woods SP wise. Many have come to desire the interaction as much as the vote, the social bit as much as the crypto bit.

I am not sure about the 50/50 split, but since I have yet to decide to even look up or learn how to buy and convert crypto to fiat and fiat to crypto, I guess it does not effect me other than what I was getting will be less, but less of something is better than less of nothing I guess. It will of course mean slower growth for my account, so lower level votes for others, but it will grow, just a bit slower than it has been.

I would still love to see random payout start times for the curation rewards. They don't need to change the formula, just the start time, pick 2 days from posting to start splitting up the curation payouts one hour then pick day five hour 5 , and maybe those that call themselves curators will really start to curate, How many post get voted for on day 6 hour 16? Randomization of the curation start time payouts would then really benefit the "Professional" Bloggers, and the small social bloggers who also curate would benefit also. The only ones that would not benefit would be the so called Professional Curators, because they would have no clue as to when the curation payout point would start so programming their bot to vote at 13 minutes 45 seconds or what ever start time is currently optimum would go away, there would be no "Optimum" curation time to vote on a blog so the blog would then really be active and Live for the entire 7 days and not just 1 or 2 days.