Thanks as always Carl for the great feedback.

The math is pretty clear, the payback is well above the cost, so I'm surprised it is not abused even more.

I'm not picking on anybody, there are hundreds of requests into the bid bots at all times, @fredrikaa is not doing anything that everyone else on these bid bots is not doing. For this particular example, a lot of SBD was paid into the post by @devfund to fund this post by @fredrikaa, -- @devfund funds a lot of his post so it is pretty easy to make these connections.

I believe we need to lead by example. Just don't love these types of examples by leaders. It really makes the little guy feel abused. I plan to donate my profit for this post back to the people here on Steemit and I'm really hoping that by discussing this openly can help this abuse be curtailed dramatically to allow true quality to be noticed and rewarded.

Perhaps I''m wasting my time and those in the know don't really want the word out and I'll get spanked for it.

Thanks for listening!