> but to me it's largely one big circle-jerk that's only being posted to inflate his own ego.

That's why the flagging option exists, I hate those circle jerks and bidbots users, I would rather get the STEEM and power up. Those "Steemians" that are using bidbots to upvote their posts in order to outshine all the other content creators don't deserve the engagement they get... The trending page is useless! There are small minnows making less than 1$ that deserve those rewards much more then those assholes do! It's one thing to use a bid bot for promoting dapps like drug wars or magic dice, it's another thing to upvote their own content. And to promote dapps one doesn't really need a bidbot, just pay the big steemians yourself instead of going through a bid bot!

I haven't seen 1 good argument pro-bidbots, and imo all bidbots should be banned by the community...we just need a big account with enough SP to flag all the rewards that the bidbots make.

Regarding the tagging, I think I've only been tagged once in those tag spammers posts and it was for a contest so I don't really mind tbh...