I have wondered this too since I have been using the nobidbots tag.  I had a resteem service that I used to use quite a bit and I have since stopped just to be safe.  I can say that my number of added followers has definitely gone down.  I am guessing most of them were bots, but by not using the upvote bots I think I am not gaining as many of those bot accounts.

I wondered the same thing in the past - you would assume that the beacause the Minnow Support bot is free and available to everyone it should be fine....

But there are community bots that are not bidbots and I wondered the same thing.

But ... who wants to follow a professional re-steemer who fills your screen with garbage? I believe that re-steemers are a problem only for people who throw their money away paying them.
Regards.

I recently used a bot of Steem Bot Tracker and I think that the investment can only be seen through SP, plus nothing. Since many times the profit in SBD does not go beyond what you use (currently) there will still be people who know how to take advantage of that. As for the Minnowsupport service, the result is not very broad in the published articles, so it is already a matter of the way of thinking of the person who uses it, such as for reputation.

Regarding the services of Resteem, you can only get a few additional votes and followers (not real) for your account, as you indicated, so it is not very reliable. Even so, there will be people who doing strategies, it suits them.

I still use the Minnowsupport bot and the Yehey one as that was a pay once, vote forever deal. You could say @qurator is the same with its 4 STEEM one off payment.

Also the former is a FREE vote. I'm not doing paid votes, and that's the difference.

I used to use the free resteemer but its gone now, not that it made any difference in terms of extra votes.

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My criteria would be that you didn't buy votes for the post. There are various services out there, but they may get lumped together as 'bid bots'. I'm not fully sure what that term means as I don't use them.

I've read some justification for various voting bots, but for the most part to me many of them seem to be fundamentally hurting steem because they have nothing to do with quality. Even if, as some of the powerful steem users have claimed, they are helping the steem currency through investment, I believe that they still hurt sttem, because they demoralize those who actually attempt to create quality content, but are new to Steem. The fact that the payout ends after 7 days doesn't help either and I think is a major issue here. Self voting seems to to be the antithesis of quality as well. I would love to see the removal of voting bots and 1 human to 1 account with only manual upvoting, no self-votes, and rewards after 7 days if new votes come in. That said, it appears that the powers that be have no intent to do any of that, so we must play the game as the rules command--at least within our own limits of what is fair.  I use minnowsupport to upvote one of my posts every 48 hours, and I also upvote my own main posts immediately. it still doesn't feel right, but I am not the one that made the rules--if I was I would have made different rules. My main goal right now is to build SP. I immediately power up all Steem. At first, I was also using the internal market to immediately trade SBD for Steem, then power that up as well. However, lately I've been experimenting with Minnowbooster. it seems to provide a bit of a boost over what I pay initially. However, you can only use it to upvote posts less than 2 days old and it seems that at least in some cases the payout due to the minnowbooster vote can fall back over the 7 days to where it is not clear that minowbooster is really worth using, especially after you factor in that some of their vote goes back to them as curation. 

@taskmaster4450 is encouraging a [#minnowuprising](https://steemit.com/steem/@taskmaster4450/time-for-a-minnow-uprising-overwhelm-the-system) starting on July 1. The idea is to post 3-4 posts each day for month and vote each others posts up plus self vote. I am part #steemitbloggers and will continue to vote there as well, but I'm going to participate in this uprising.