It's funny that we published posts on the same topic almost at the same time 😃.

Yeah, and also interesting that we both focused on the fact that author rewards can be redistributed in order to provide passive income to investors. I've had it in mind for months to do a post on this topic, so it's sort of amazing that these came in so close together.

The number does not matter if the bots will publish their posts in some separate unpopular tag.

Right, if the bidbots follow a self-vote and distribute strategy in a more-or-less invisible manner, then we just have part of the community competing for (rewards + audience) and the other part just competing for rewards.

Then if the bidbot posts don't show up as spam and interfere with other curation, their section of the blockchain basically just becomes a "proof of stake" mining pool. Not what the rewards system was intended for, but it's equivalent to some other blockchains. So then we can start to see if the premise in my post was right ("Premise: Rewards + Audience is more valuable than rewards alone.").