Bid bots also make it easier for shitposts to get better payouts. I've seen plenty of people with high reps just posting any old shit, upvoting themselves and slapping a bot vote on top of that hit the trending page and reap the reward pool. Its as if since they 'made it" they dont need to put the required effort they had to in the beginning or like many of the smaller accounts are required to do in order to become succesful