You may disagree with this, but in order for you to effectively counter bid bots, you'd have to create a competition/movement that can rival their usage.

It is said that bid bots are somehow the answer to increasing "collusive voting". So, what would counter those two? Ideologies that came to fruition, or at least experimented upon, tended to be economic or spiritual in nature.

If you are so opposed to bid bots, you need to come up with something that can challenge their efficiency without going the black market vote route.