Really interesting ideas. I'm also not convinced that this is worth the effort. By the way, I recently did an analysis trying to rank users by their curation "ability", and @recursive2 came up as number 1 on the list, @recursive3 was number 5, and @recursive was number 7. Seems like you really know what you're doing! lol, you can check out all the results here if you want: https://steemit.com/bots/@trogdor/building-better-bots-ranking-the-top-curators