I think many turned into manual curators. Not sure about buildawhale. Maybe it still frontruns voting for known authors. But the actual "bid boting" business is probably extinct. Now they probably just offer ROI to delegators. Enough front ends have their own promotion services anyway.

In HF25 (coming in June, probably) there will be a change at the curation window level. Every curator within the first two hours will be on equal footing. That should give automated voting less advantage over humans.

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