I was doing the autovote thing for a little bit, curation trails and what not. I recently stopped because I realized I was voting on content that I personally did not support. Not that I'm saying anything against anyone's freedom of expression, I'm simply stating that I would not be the one to support certain points of views.
I think that specially for the minnows auto-votes might be counter productive, the best way to grow on this platform if you have a tiny account is not by trying to score 0.002 steem from autovotes in my opinion, but by finding your own tribe and trying to find out how you can contribute to that group.
If you are a whale however, it could work very much so like a tiny interest you are collecting every day.
In any case thank you for sharing, I appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
I use steemvoter on authors that I already find myself voting for them manually all the time anyway. Once I see they always write posts I would vote on I may add them to Steemvoter so I can support them. But I like manually voting posts and actually reading them. Engaging with the community is where the real value is and creating good posts for them.
I kind of learned this way of thinking from you @luzcypher you've built the open mic community because of the way you are, its not just luck or anything random...
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Real engagement and helpful content build a real value on Steemit in my view. Once you do that it really doesn't matter what the price of Steem is or how many followers you get a day. The community growing is the value and if it helps others it stays valuable regardless.
It's good to see some of that mindset rubbing off onto you. You're off to a great start and I know you'll succeed because you have the right mindset.