Content and engagement beget more of the same. There is no reason to treat Hive as a crypto soup kitchen, if you will, where the polite thing to do is not look like you're going after the rewards too eagerly by posting too much. Of course, if you have a lot of large autos set on your account, you might lose them if you post too much casual content.

I'd say it's fully possible to do well reward-wise even without autos.