RE: What do people think of bidbots now?

Bid Bots are fine, and I almost expect them to make a resurgence. Just wait till people realize they could be selling those downvotes as well.

Curation is a dumb idea, and just because the community has rallied around the EIP in the short-term out of fear in the market, just wait until all the exploitative douchebags learn how to game the hell out of it.

I mean... honestly they already are. All you have to do is have a lot of stake. After that analyze who's getting the most consistently highest payouts.

Okay, so now you have a list of authors who often get large payouts. Any post under X amount at the 4.9 minute mark gets upvoted. ROI maximized, curation worthless. The bot isn't checking for good content, it's checking for good ROI.

Although I will say that 50% curation is interested. With the reward curve if you upvote yourself you basically get dinged 50% anyway, so the new system really incentivizes users to upvote each other and create network effect. It will be interesting to see where it goes.