Instead of spending your time searching for and upvoting quality content, you can delegate that authority
Which is exactly the cause of so many problems on this chain. I detest autovoting in all its forms. THe whole idea behind the blockchain was to earn from creating content which is then approved by other members of the community by voting on it. Too much is earned from curation. If there were no autovotes, people might put more effort and sincerity into their posts in my opinion instead of voting on stuff without actually looking at it.
Thanks for bringing up this perspective. I agree with not autovoting trash content and there are occasional problems with bots and automated content here and there. However, the curation trails I featured and follow myself are manually curated (with the exception of Actifit). If a curation trail is upvoting spam content, it will likely find itself in hot water and not being followed. The best content is still the most rewarded, but I haven't seen widespread problems with spam being auto-curated in significant amounts. IF a curation trail begins upvoting bad content, I will stop following it and so will many others. I know there are accounts in the past that have been downvoted into irrelevance by the community for posting spam, so I am confident in the self-governance of the HIVE community.