RE: What if Bidbots did some 'for-profit' community work?
The code allows this, bidbots make more, the delegators make more and authors have access to a pool that has 2% more in it per day so, it is really up to whether the bidbot operators are serious when they say they care about the community
A lot of time, i see these bidbots as promotional tools,. As long as they are optimized and regulated not to bring ruins to the platform
With enough of them banding together, it will cost them and their delegators almost nothing and as said, it returns a lot of SBD into the pool with statistically, 30% of it getting returned to them the next week anyway. 30% is about 25,000 SBD a month and they took 345,000 in April. That means they will get about 7% returned, more than they spent.
People want to make money, this leading to a winwin situation is meant to put an end to the bot troubles, if there are no selfish coders
Unless you promote to the first pages of trending, there is little value. All of the small votes don't get any more eyes on. I know, as I have a $10 small vote and don't get anything extra for it.
Then their acclaimed love for the community is a facade then