Well together they don't consume as much of the reward pool, and this is a 'proof of stake' game we are in. While I don't self-vote, I can't blame people for doing so to a point. Buying votes for average content that is seen by new visitors, makes the place look ridiculous at times.
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I agree about poor content. But what about a case where I spent at least 8 hours capturing and editing tutorial videos, spent 4 euros on transactions for it. Is it justifiable to promote such post with bid bots to get some visibility? Of course my 80 cents didn't do much, but I did try to get best bargain for every penny.
My author rewards from bidbots are profitable but are miles away from what I spent to produce this content.
Clearly you aren't going to have much of a negative effect on the rewards pool, or gain much more visibility with those bids, and on this scale there is an arguement that a boost into 'Hot' for your chosen tags is reasonable.
The problem arises when everyone is at it, 24 hours a day, across 100+ Bots, which has been the case since late last year. Large stakes have moved away from curation to these bots, and this is continuing to be the case.
If you are into video tutorials, have a go with utopian-io and look at anything open source. Dtube prefer people over screen capture imo.
Good luck!