It is not about the author, the only thing about the author is her lack of responses which may drive away consumers thus her content isn't getting consumed so it shouldn't be as valued as it is being by blind autovotes. It is more about the upvoter continuing to reward such lack of activities/consumption.

If no one read your posts or for a long time there was close to no proof that anyone did, you as well as me in that scenario should get their rewards adjusted if we're riding along on massive autovotes as we are. That is how the system is meant to work and why there is 25% of downvote mana compared to upvote mana among many other usecases.

I can understand your perspective and I do feel bad about this example, but we can't be bending over backwards to justify the lack of certain users activities like this and what it means for their perceived value on the blockchain.