Dear @simplymike, you are a member of steem-bounty family and for me this is enough to say that this is the best thing i learned about Steemit.
You know, Steemit is full of trolls who live just behind of the pc screen and think to be great man, but in their life they are nothing.
After HF20 i was ready to leave this community if there was not steem-bounty, here i find a lot real people like you and i calmed down and i am still here to comment and share my tought.
Regarding your question, i learned on my skin some months ago that there was a kind of war between sneakyninja bit and crypticat, but i was not knowing that and one time i made my biggest investment on bot, 10 sbd, and i got flagged by this whale without a reason, than i discover that in discord there was a blog named weresist and i saw too many shit for my mind, so i decided to stop to use upvoting bid bots...:((