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Yes using Bidbots has so much advantages rather than disadvantages for those who use them properly.

At least I say this according to my experience. I started using bidbots heavily, when I read an article here on Steemit on the advantages and benefits of using bidbots by @digitaldreamer which I rewrite some of them here:

Newbies are given the power to be heard and earn their money back plus some profit while doing so.

This generates more interest on the platform and more demand for SBD/Steem.

More demand for SBD and Steem will increase the price.

The first benefit is what I really like, which is one of my main purposes why I use bidbots. I want to be heard and earn a little from what I have invested in buying upvotes from bidbots. I believe I have a message whenever I made a blog here on Steemit, but sad to say it was always unnoticed by the community, because it never went to the trending page. But now I know when I use bidbots at least my blogs may go to the hot page if not on the trending page to the category of which my blogs belong.

If the Bidbots promise a 10% gauranteed ROI then I believe they are beneficial to the users especially the Minnows like me, who wants to be heard and earn a little profit.

One example of bidbots which promises a 10% ROI is @postpromoter created by steem witness @yabapmatt of which I often use. You can track the bidbots via https://steembottracker.com also created @yabapmatt.

Here's what happened to me when I used bidbots:

I gained a little confidence whenever I see my blogs got more than 100$ of SBD, though I know I got most of it from bidbots. It was so discouraging when I made my best to create a blog which I knew had a little bit of quality and got only few cents of SBD and not even 1$ SBD. But now, whenever I post and see more than a hundred SBD upvotes on my blog, it encourages me to go on and do my best.

But what is the Dilemma of using Bidbots in an abusive way?

First, we have to establish how bidbots are used in an abusive way.

To make it clearer, I would cite an example of someone ( I don't want to humiliate him, so I would not mention his username here) who just recently got into trending page because he used bidbots. He was so happy and posted a blog about a random day of his life, made a little story of how his day went as a bartender and flooded it with upvotes from bidbots. It went to almost 1k SBD of upvotes. I know he invested so much money on his blog in order to get such an amount of upvotes from the bots.

Then, he was noticed by the fun guy @berniesanders and flagged him... Sadly, his reward went down to less than 800 SBD, I guess this is the dilemma.

But where is the abuse here?

The "Abuse" here is that, he made a low quality content and flooded it with bidbots upvotes. Maybe he was unaware of it, or maybe he doesn't know that such a content that would go to trending will be frowned by many and especially the Whales on Steemit.

How to avoid such a mistake:

Here's what he should have done: He should have made a little more exciting content, that entertains, or informs newbies on Steemit or anything that promotes the Steem blockchain with at least 2,000 words and then flooded it with bidbots upvotes. It should have been justifiable to the community. Or, he should have restrained himself and bought a not so huge amount of upvotes from the bidbots. He should have made a little profit and not loose any from his investment.

I guess this is a lesson learned from an experience of others, that we should be careful and avoid it. Steemit is really different from other Social Medias that we know. It is a platform for excellence and not merely a platform for profits. There are people here who care for others especially the Minnows. So if you are a Minnow like me, let us support one another. Let us not be focused only on the trending page but to our feed also. Let us support and upvote our followers and those we are following.

If we want to use bidbots for our contents, at least make it appealing, informative and entertaining...I am not a good writer and also not a native English speaking person but I try my best to create blogs that inform and leave lessons from them. I hope that justifies my using of bidbots...

How about you? Do you use bidbots? Why or why not?

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