Something else worth noting - earlier this week the magic number for Curie dropped from $1.00 to $0.50.
This whole situation makes for an interesting dynamic. Yours was the most profitable bot, so it gained a lot of "stalkers." Now that your train is too powerful for Curie votes, someone else's will be the most profitable. I suspect the same thing that happened to you will also happen to them.
$0.50 is a great move by Curie. They'll be able to earn vastly more curation rewards, which will help fund their operations. It also increases the challenge level for curators, which livens things up for all of us.
This is super interesting. If Curie's submission filter's entirely automated, do you think a $0.50 threshold would've been suggested and maintained by the algorithm? Just wondering if a bot could arrive to such a decision that easily.
It's totally impossible to say, but that would be a fun problem to work on. It would depend completely on how you defined your objectives. We should talk about this in about 6 weeks, after some of my deadlines have passed and I have a little more time to do stuff. :)