I agree, and wondered myself if this account was negative ROI.

The unfortunate fact is all other customers are caught in the middle.

PS - The title implied more blame on voting bots than I intended, but it sounded catchy. I wanted to argue that before all stake was sold, people would flag but no, the same economic incentive would have just been there to self-vote.

This is slightly different from what would have happened without voting bots, but probably not materially.