I did not give you an upvote because I have more pressing issues to use my VP on.
I was not born, and did not start to use STEEM with this thread, and if I voted every good thread I saw, I would have hovered around 70% instead of above 97%.
Thank for these bots, I can spare my VP from voting on my own comments in some cases.
I use these bots to play this game well, and to hurt spammers' and abusers' ROI.
If you play the STEEM game well, you should know my vote has little effect.
I am not making a living here either.
Does it mean that I should forfeit any hope of growing my influence here?
It may be your original idea and it is well done.
You may as well deserve your rewards or more.
I too resteem content, but I think before I do, and I still regret at least one time that I resteemed content because it was quite a fraud and once resteemed, I could not undo it.
Once in a while I trigger haters' flags.
There are at least 3 goods in it:

1. Exposes bad people
2. Wastes their VP
3. Angers them

And I already explained shortly why bidbots should be used by decent posters such as I.
I also feel that the owners of the bots I currently use deserve to be paid for their decency and for offering a decent alternatives to scams.

Do not like them, do not use them.
Your loss, not mine.
If I waited for people here to reward me, I would have still hovered below a reputation of 45 and had less SP than I have.
There are things I will not do to gain influence here, but bidbots usage is not one of these things.