I’m actually just switching from steemvoter to steemauto, which turns out to be superior in quite a few ways. Firstly they don’t use up one fullupvote from your account per day, like on steemvoter if you choose the “free version”. Further more you can set as many rules as you want with steemauto.
You can even make sure to set a limit on your voting power, for example on 80, and steemauto will automatically pause when it gets close to this level so you can get your power back and always stay above the limit you choose.
Frankly I don’t understand why people don’t use autovoting. It’s impossible to curate everything manually anyways, plus you are making full use of the potential earnings you can get from your daily refueled steem power
Yes, you are right. SteemAuto is free and has many cool features. It is also Open Source and I trust that much more. The developer @mahdiyari is pretty responsive on Discord and has added many features on request.
I think what I get from steemauto coming from all of this insight is that it serves as a well thought out trade-off deterrent. I get how that would help out especially because I feel the increasing power of one's steemit presence can surely intimidate them into thinking they'll add too much to a less significant post.