I had no idea about curie, voting bots or anything else at the time I posted it. I just got very lucky with timing, I suppose, as a whale spotted it and upvoted, and someone else submitted to curie, and it just gained momentum from there.

It was actually worth $540 after a day or so, but the crypto market cap decline this last week or so brought the value all the way down to $293. Still, an amazing start to my time on Steemit, and thanks to its reception I learned a lot more about how to (try) and best use the platform.