Please, please, please, make sure your daily vote power gets used and spread around. I might suggest however that you delegate to some hardworking newbie rather than a curating bot. The long-term health of this platform is going to come from real people using it. I can't tell you the number of upvotes I get worth no steem because the newbie has lost VP and not because they have necessarily run it down, but because they have none to begin with, not even a penny.
If the powers that be want to see an immediate upturn they will consider delegating more VP to those with none. Reward those Steemians that stay active on the platform, that despite the downturn are continuing to read and upvote. Maintaining the health of both steem and the platform, makes us a marketable entity, not just a crypto currency subject to nothing but public opinion.
By the by ... if one has run out of steem powered upvote ... don't let them vote. Limit the number of votes a day to ten. It is not readily understandable to newbies that they can't upvote everything like on FB. I know I learnt the hard way. LOL
The best way to get through this downturn and not be vulnerable to the next one is to empower every single user from day one and to maintain their power with delegation if needed. Rather than putting more power into the hands of those who already have it on steem, might we empower those who do not. It is a more akin to a Keynesian approach, an approach that has seen more than one world's economy come out of depressions and recessions. With this approach we would have new users flocking to the platform and many of these new users buying into the platform.
EMPOWER MORE REAL PEOPLE. EMPOWER MORE PEOPLE. EMPOWER MORE PEOPLE.
The strength of Steem comes from Steemians.
Did I mention empower more people.