Your analysis is very useful to me, as I have been wondering about the numbers. Yes, we do manual curation, with a team of 2 right now. I would love to have a bot do the voting, alas, bots are terrible judges of art, so it appears that humans will be doing the curation. As it grows, we will need more manual curators or some serious AI bots to help. I have some ideas about this.....but nothing concrete.....if there are any programmers who have a good solution, reach out to us in Discord to discuss this.
Thanks so much Paula!