bid-bots were the ultimate evil and started to die the day free down-votes were introduced. There was a lot of unrest for a while, and one particular bid-bot owner (@booster) threw a wobbler on @katharsisdrill over the bidbottophant which was bloody hilarious!
https://steemit.com/downvote/@katharsisdrill/7fyatv-downvoted-the-bidbottophant-explains-why
I miss this kind of stuff and was rolling over in laugher reading all this.