Do bid votes still exist?

Bidded votes have gone almost extinct, this is because of 2.5 free downvotes per user per day that the Hard Fork 21 (Steem update) introduced. This gave users a way to regulate the bidded trash on Trending without personal cost on curation rewards. What this has done to bidbots, is that the majority of them have turned into manual curation, in order to keep their delegators - if they let votes be landed on shit content, they would lose curation rewards because of the downvotes given by the community, therefore giving less for delegators who might pull their delegations away because of this.

It has caused a complete U-turn in to the dynamics of the ecosystem which was long due for fixing.

With Steem price being so low - therefore with less competition - and curation being strong and incentivised (post payouts are 50/50 now), it is an excellent time to post for Steem earnings.

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