You make some good points, but to me the main reason I don't like bid bots is that I feel exactly the opposite that you do, they make the playing field less even, just think about it, people are delegating to bid bots and their SP is tied to whomever bids for the bots votes, if I don't have SBD I am out of the game, which is the case of I'd guess at least 90% or probably more of the members. So these guys are out of the loop, only people who already have some money or are willing to invest their own money can use them to at least get to the trending page, and you can't get "real" votes because the people who have some SP have it all tied up with the bots. Great, you have people buying Steem, so the price goes up, actually the price has gone down so I don't think they have anything to do with the price.
And the thing that bothers me is that bid bots get a one-two strike, they gain whatever you pay for the vote, and then they get a 25% curation reward, so these bots are actually making a lot of money while the user gets pennies on his investment, that is if he doesn't lose or just manages to break even.
So in reality the profits you get from bid bots are just two, if you spend enough you get to be on the trending page and the other one which is more tangible but doesn't really benefit the user is that your REP grows a lot with these big bid bot votes.
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In my opinion, you would be out of the game anyway. Also, why would we want to attract users who do not wish to invest? If you don't have and aren't interested in investing in SBDs, it is okay with me if you don't want to participate. If you want to grind it out the way I did, until you can purchase some, welcome to SteemIt.
So it 's just down to if you don't have money you can't make money?
If your content is good enough to really be something special, you can earn.
If you are willing to grind out the money, you can earn.
So, you think we should just distribute money to everyone? Is that sustainable?
Actually Steemit is not an equal opportunity platform, your success depends on whales or big dolphins voting for you, if these guys use voting bots like steemauto and vote for 200 different people a day things would be much more evenly distributed, we both know the quality of your content doesn't play a big part on the votes you get, you can write like Hemingway but if you don't get votes from some big guys you're not going to make much. But bid bots just take the possibility of getting votes even lower.
I disagree. They allow you the opportunity to get visibility. That is something we did not have before the voting bots.