Yea it's extra "work" but I don't think about Hive as work. To me Hive is fun so creating different themed curation accounts is fun. I only post for rewards from my main account though.

And auto-downvotes are IMHO even worse than auto votes. Because I feel that downvotes are made too often and too lightly.

I used to be really against auto upvotes. But overtime I have just come to terms with the fact it’s something that can’t be stopped. Like even without Hive Vote most people now can easily write a script with AI now.

Because I feel that downvotes are made too often and too lightly.

I don’t really see that many accounts downvote though. Like most users don’t even use their downvote mana at all even though we have some downvote mana that is separate from our upvote mana.