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RE: If you're voting open-loop, it's optimal to vote earlier than 30 minutes
And, if competition for curation rewards becomes too fierce in upvoting historically high-earning authors, bot voting may increase the visibility of up-and-coming post authors.
By current Steem price competition isn't really a driving force, but I can imagine big sientific labs working on curation bots in the future )