My take on this is that while I make some Autovotes, I set my VP threshold to %92 so there will be always five to six %100 votes for me for the days I wanna vote manually (I almost never vote when my VP is %80 or less.)
If I didn't manually vote one day (which is currently most of the time, but this changes) then my VP will get down to %92, recover, then get spent again. Smart move if I say myself~
I totally agree with your advices on how to let Autovotes make Hive better.
That's a good way to balance autovotes with manual curation! :-) It's definitely smart to use autovotes to never let your VP sit at 100%.