Thanks!

I'm doing these posts monthly at least in the first year as I'm a numbers guy and I enjoy keeping track of these things. I like the combination between Auto-votes and manual voting as some accounts I would manually vote each time anyway so It's better to do it early automated. It's not that easy though to have accounts that are good for hive, have content that interests me, and don't abuse by getting lazy when they know they will get autovoted by a lot of people. At the same time, it's also really nice to receive auto-votes as you know you don't have to rely on 'getting lucky' to be on the radar of curation groups.

For as far as the leasing goes, it's the cheapest way to get influence and grow I would think as it generally will earn you a lot more than it costs. The extra curation rewards pay off at least part of the cost and someone with let's put it extreme 50k Hive Power will naturally get a lot more upvotes compared to someone with 10 Hive Power.

With Binance giving such high staking (close to +50% last thing I saw), it's getting harder to get affordable leases because why would anyone settle for 8% instead of 50%. I haven't gotten my latest bids filled and some previous ones got canceled so I'm back down to 4500HP now. The good thing though is that one of the expired leases hasn't been taken back yet so that is free Hive Power which is another hidden benefit of leasing which actually makes it cheaper than it really is.

Nice to see you like my content, I've enjoyed having a blog about things that I watch as it really does enhance the viewing experience overall. I'm also kind of making it so the blog would something I would like to read myself in search for some things I possibly otherwise would not come across without any spoilers.