How to avoid it being treated as a bid bot:

I mean, I've been fairly vocal about my dislike of bid bots and why we were forced to create something like it back in that era that was more fair with a curated list of authors that were allowed to use it, guaranteed ROI for them and no cut being taken by us. So for what its worth our intentions are in no way meant for it to be used like one so the content will depend quite a lot on it and maybe it will make more use of fair downvotes at the same time if curators are trying to maximize on such posts.

Think of it this way, how many good posts back in the day (even though I know there weren't many) used bid bots and had great content so people didn't mind and even added more votes on top despite them trending due to bid bots. I remember there being some I voted either way even though abuse was rampant of garbage content at the time so as long as the wisdom of the crowd are being fair towards the content, i.e. not downvoting it just because it's using reward.app and not upvoting it just because it's using reward.app but instead downvoting and upvoting based on content then it should be a fun experiment to see what it leads to and how it can improve the current downsides of the EIP that I mentioned in the post of how curators are maximizing with their votes right now.

Anyway, like many other services on Hive it's good that the maintenance costs aren't so high and the fees can be low. Will definitely consider creating a poll at some point to see if people prefer 50/50 (hbd + hivepower) instead of all liquid by default.