Thanks for the thoughtful response :) I've also noticed the race to the bottom as votes get pushed earlier and earlier. It would be interesting to see the 'scouting' you mention start to become more frequent. I hadn't thought about quantifying the entropy in voting patterns to differentiate human and bot curators. That would actually be a challenging problem, especially as bots begin to imitate their scouted human curators more and more. Even with seemingly random voting patterns you would have to look at correlations with other accounts' voting histories. Really interesting!