I never knew there was an advantage/disadvantage in voting on comments. I frequently vote comments and didn't think further than the vote itself.
As far as the votes go after HF - on one hand, there are a couple auto votes for different reasons, mostly they are long reads and I get to them at the end of my day. I mostly curate manually, if possible, I would like to keep it that way. It gets me out there reading and seeing what people are writing.
And a lot of it is interesting. Thanks for the clarification.