Hey,
I wasn't insinuating that you were intending to profit here, or anywhere. But I saw (above) that it did happen, and I figured you must know it's possible to decline payout on posts (especially ones where we just add "check this out" to a link to somebody else's content). Like you said, you can't help that people curated your post. They probably found it funny, or agreed with the point being made, so it's kinda understandable they upvoted. (That said, perhaps professional curators should know better than to reward this sort of thing. In fact, there are or were programs specifically looking for posts doing so, and handing out massive downvotes. Not sure I agree with that either, just saying.)
Not against profit,
DRutter