I have some people that I autovote because I want to support them every time they post.
When I see on BeeMe that I've voted for you I come to comment. It's just the easy way for me.
I DO keep my autovoter current. Shit post me a few times and I'm gone. I think that is a reasonable and responsible way to handle voting on hive.
I also manually vote several times a day. I want to be engaged and there are just some people who I DO NOT want to miss.
I absolutely can see why people autovote and I appreciate receiving them as I'm no saint either :-) I just would LOVE to have people have to option to autovote be 'challenged' by making manual curation more fun by having randomized voting windows or easter eggs or even badges :-) There's a lot of engagement to get even from a voting perspective and in the end we want Hive to become as cool/fun/unpredictable as possible so we can have fun with it.
Your way of using autovotes reminds me of the good old RSS-reader by the way :D