Thanks for pointing this out, its a great way of giving back to the steem community as a whole and promoting your own content.
The issue I have with bid bots, and why I don’t use them, is that they negate what I feel are the fundamentals of the Steem community. Which is that content is curated by the community, a post should be in trending due to its popularity and not because it is paid advertising. Is that not what the Promoted section is for, should your post not rather show up there if you are using bid bots? I’d also love to see the view counter be reinstated.