Interesting data & analysis. And the proof of great job by @leprechaun as curator.
Today, 5 days later, I decided to check how consistent is this curator's performance. And how are the dynamics of his curated authors, to see if his "favorites" change a lot, or are somehow "fixed"
Here is my findings.
From all yet unexpired curated posts, I found:

• Total qty of upvotes: 615
• Total number of different authors: 331
• Authors clearly curated by auto-voting bot: 19 (or more)

Here are the TOP-120 most curated authors by @leprechaun in the last 7 days:

(auto voting upvoted authors are marked in a pink background)

I must admit, that I like what I see. The only area where I think things could be improved - is smaller number of automatically upvoted authors.
How I know who were on autovote bot?
The time of vote after post went live - shows everything:

No way you can make such precise timing by a manual curation.
🙂