I never upvote anything without consuming the content myself. No auto-votes ever.

Respect. I wish there wouldn't even be aut votes on this blockchain. Except the business side of them, they basically don't have any value.

It's like giving a restaurant's meal of the day a five star without even sipping a glass of water in there. I know there are folks who deliver on a daily basis, but I still consider that manual curation is a way healthier way for growth, in both the curator and content creator's case.

The answer could be to find a way to screen for quality posts whose comment sections to pay special attention to.

My decades old proposal is to have a trending page based on engagement where posts igniting the most engagement to be featured there.