Right now I do not use auto votes at all, it is all manual voting. In the morning I try to vote my followers, and get to midnight. If there has not been enough activity, then I go to my list and pick a couple until I get to midnight for my votes.

Then during the day, as I cruise around Hive I will drop a few random votes, and before going to bed I vote myself up until noon the next day. I often need to drop by my wife's curation trail and select a few of her "people" to vote on, then I pop over to gimps curation trail and drop a few on his people.

It works for me for now using the list I have built and two trusted voters to follow when the need arises. I am not sure what I will do when/if I get such a large vote I need to actually vote on hundreds a day just to ensure my vote is not wasted. Which I feel a lot of vote trails do, (waste votes on content I would never vote on). You and your reblogs, and a few other reblogs from people I follow do often get a vote from me and sometimes a user gets put on one of my go-to list.