I sent 2 payments of SBD to https://steemit.com/@sleeplesswhale, both posts didn't get an upvote.  I sent them 3 messages and no reply... you can see their wallet for payment and my messages.  The total sent for 2 posts was not a lot, but that is not the point.

On a side note, is there anything in place on your site that can check to see if a votebot is not getting bids at the last minute by associate accounts or second accounts by the bot owner.  I have been following and watching steem bot tracker for a couple of weeks. It seems like at the last minute someone bids a large amount of SBD to put everyone into a negative return.  Normally no one would do that so their own returns would be negative.  Just wondering if there is anything to check for bots to see if they have an abnormally high ratio of negative returns and correlate that to large last-minute bids... I think it could be easy for a bot owner to place last minute bids in from another Steemit account, so everyone has a negative return, and the bot owner actually makes money bidding on this own bot.

It would be nice to see if you can mine some data for a bots behavior and bidding patterns, in order to keep the bot owners honest.  If you could show data like which bots have highest payouts, ratios for negative and positive return, some statistics on bot behavior... that would be nice to see.  Just thought I would ask.  Cheers.