Hai @krnel,
I used to buy small upvotes through bidbots in my initial days. And now it's been more than two months since I lastly used any bidbots on my posts. I feel very proud to say that most of my reputation came through organic votes. I publicly made a swear In my post that I made 20 days back not to use bidbots even if I get nothing as reward. And I will never use them as long as I do exist on steemit.

Also, as a consequence of this post I'm going to unfollow the people who run bidbots right away. Thank you for thinking in the same line that I do.