I am not super technically inclined to how these things affect the blockchain at a larger level, but I am against autovoters. I use them because I'm small fry and the only other way to get a better ROI is to lease out my hive on dLease and not use Hive since I have no VP. As Acid said, he gets 4x more rewards going auto so I would be hitting myself in the knee with a hammer if I didn't use it. It would be a severe disadvantage.

As I said in reply to Acid, Markymark has me on a $0.67 cent auto-vote which now means NO OTHER CURATOR will pick me up. I get stuck with author rewards below $5 and it won't matter what I post. That's why I've gone all photos with minimal substance. Not worth my time to put anything more than a few basic facts into my posts. Spend an hour walking around taking photos, an hour to research and write, and in the end my time was worth $2 an hour.