I remember this user who at the time that I joined Steemit was someone that I aspired to become like because his posts were earning 50 dollars and more and he was already in the reputation 60. So wow this person was someone trusted by the community. Or so I thought.

My rude awakening was when he started posting 5 times a day with just Marvel characters and I commented on a favorite character of mine and he replied with absolutely no fucking idea what he was talking about.

I revisited his posts and saw the pattern of 1 paragraph to start the post, which talks of the origin of the character, 1 image, usually the hero, and one ending paragraph that states the powers. He even placed a sourced link of where he "allegedly" got the info so that if Cheetah comes knowing he can say he properly cited.
Yet I know where he got his info and he changed a couple of words so it wouldn't be seen as outright plagiarism.

That was it I discovered he was a golden shit poster that tried to outsmart the system by following upme's protocol on what is considered a shit post.

Imagine that 5 posts that were 50 dollars and more a day. 250 a day for something that he took off a wiki on Superheroes.

I tried frontrunning his bots for awhile and collected a sizable curation reward but posting 5 shit posts a day used up my SP and decided to stop and just forget about him and focus on upvoting posts that I care about even if i get less curation rewards.

If we let the current trend that bid bots go rampant then we will look into a future that it is all crap.

The funny thing is these shitposters don't care for engagement and their post is like a bot graveyard of the confirmations from the bots that it has been upvoted but no human read about it.