Thanks, that's good advice. I hadn't heard of the steambottracker, but I'm gonna go check it out. And it's a good point that bidbots are totally within Steemit's terms of service, which is something I had in mind when I wrote this post, and should have mentioned.
I think it's totally appropriate to try to combat bidbot abuse and reward farming with downvotes. But I think you're right that there's a lot of bidbot hate out there (based on what I've been reading), and that does make using bots and upvote services risky in a way that I hadn't thought of.
I wonder if we're going to start seeing bots that downvote posts that have used bidbots automatically?