I keep my min VP set at 85-90% on autovoter
Yes, that's a big one too, it leaves some room for manual curation. 5 posts a week on autovote is fine too, even if the author is AWESOME you can add the other votes manually and even give a higher percentage.
The people panicking about it probably have high powered dead accounts voting for them everyday.
Yeah - it was actually crazy to me that so many autovotes were just moved with us from Steem to Hive :D I think many people don't even know they're voting on Hive!