I tried it once, I almost made money using it, but the crap that filled my notifications wasn't worth it.

Still active.

Got muted like crazy. After people started gaming for top zap, there stopped being a return on investment for the poster, and all the other awards could be spammed by other bots. Plus alot were just meaningless posts.

Yeh, I think you're right.

I think its popularity died out after Primal gave users the option to hide those posts from their trending feeds. It was basically a hack to make a post trend quickly. Not completely a bad thing, but it essentially turned trending feeds into paid promotional feeds, which I assume is not their intended purpose.

I have very few of 'em, let buzzbot exist, thx

Still here!