Yeah, auto-vote totally stifles user engagement. I would feel less inclined to post quality content or any content if I just thought a bot-farm would come in to upvote me since I wouldn't accept or feel that my work was really valued, just that people wanted to cash-in on my value without reading my post.
It would also lead me to devalue manual votes because I would suspect that people were auto-voting unless they actually commented.
Auto-voting should not cause you to reduce the quality of your post. That's a different ball game. Inasmuch as these suto-voters do not read posts, there are others who read. And you are seen by what you publish.
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Oh yeah, I know that practically, my mind just tries to tell me differently. It's just kind of weird to think that you can get upvoted automatically. All in all though, I am still loving the way the blockchain works, and I am totally looking forward to contributing more.