You never know, someone somewhere out there might be saying exactly that, just you haven't heard it yet XP
I kind of understand where you're coming from with warranting automated votes, in my case I'm generally just trying to keep up consistency and quality of work because unlike you I don't actually know why I'm getting most of the automated votes x_x
How do you value what you do? That's something I never got the hang of (even with the webdev business and commissions x_x). Also how do you work out how other people value what you do?
I'm assuming we were talking financial value seeing as we're here and talking about upvotes ^_^;