Yeah, I guess similar to the KE score it only tells half the story, so curators should still take a look now and then to make sure it's not spammy nongenuine comments as well as take a look at how they vote since those can just be a trail/auto as well.
Honestly, we have a lot of voting power right now, just lack curators and posts to curate since our main focus is newcomers. So even though we've become less strict due to how things are now there's still excess voting power that we usually spend elsewhere. So I don't think we really need to re-use the hive for more curation, but burning might be good for now, especially in this way, since a lot of inflation has happened over the last year of our token. Hopefully later down the line we can burn hive in different ways as well.
RE: Did bid bots suck?