An extensive exercise, thanks for this.
Those people we see clogging up trending by use of overbidding on bots? They are literally bleeding money (unless they are actually making it up with real votes, but somehow I really doubt it).
They don't care it seems, it's for publicity only. The money isn't an issue to them, but it's going to the BB owner and the main delegator, right from the rewards pool.
I really do dislike 'wasting' VP on downvotes, but I agree we should all perhaps reserve some energy for it.
Thank you.