I received @curie vote more then once now, and every time that happened I was completely happy, I felt tremendous pride and joy!
I've read this post and read the comments. There simply can not be made a comparison of @curie with the bidbots. Curie is great and you only get if you have really contributed value to the community, and your earnings are not high. That is indeed a way to motivate a newcomer very much and to contribute a very positive value yourself. Bidbots ... well, my experience with bidbots is not that great. Maybe also because my earnings are not so high that I can / will give a lot to that. But my experience is that you have to pay attention or you lose money using bidbots.
Curie you can not buy, you earn a @curie vote. You can not earn bidbots you have to buy. A very big difference which for me only indicates that Curie adds value to the platform and the bidbots are ignored by me.
A bidbot does not recognize anything from you, does not recognize your work and does not make you proud of yourself. Curie does all that, and there is the true value from @curie besides the big vote.
So @curie, keep up the good work!