just know that this propaganda is to steer you toward the bots they want. It is also no where close to a real history of bots. Also know that this overbidding they talk about was actually happening before steembottracker came out because there was no way to actually know if you had overbid or not. Back then some bot owners banked on the fact that you would overbid. In fact, when it first started it was even being called "The bot killer".
Don't believe me? Ask @yabapmatt himself, he didn't like hearing that name for his wonderful creation. Since the bot tracker came out this has actually been a near impossibility. Now people can see exactly how much they are expected to get and even those that bid very late in the round can tell if it will be a negative roi (return on investment)or not. Go the the tracker and look yourself. steem bot tracker. Your assumed ROI is very clear and if you look long enough you will see that people are using this application to make sure they do not get negative returns. Look at the blue button on each bot called " details" it will show you the last round and all votes on it (set it to rewards not usd or it will just be confusing).
Lastly, have you noticed that you are the only other person in this conversation besides the person who posted it and the person that he took it from?
If you want to know what bot is good to use know that people like (specifically the man that originally wrote this garbage pile) have a clear stance against bots as a whole so for them to tell you which bot is "good" is already fishy.
If you really want to know what bots are good then look at the bots. Remember that bots offer a service. Read their rules. Do they seem fair? What are they doing? Are they responsive to people, like do they respond to comments? Do they give refunds if you mess up (some don't)? Are they on top of missed votes and taking care of their customers? Do they respond to their customers?
Never let someone tell you what bot is good... Determine that on your own.
Yea I use the Bot tracker by @yabapmatt often and voted him witness because of my appreciation for it. And you are correct about doing research even some bots that show that they give a refund sometimes won't I have had almost no issues getting an auto-refund on non eligible posts except for with just one bot ( @adriatik ) that even has the auto-refund symbol but did not refund me. I even contacted the account on the chat and after over a week was finally responded to with
I responded with
Since that I never got another response nor did I get a refund or upvote. That was back in January so I just gave up and have since not used the bot.
research is pretty key