Yep! I am well aware you know a good bunch of people who don't care about curation rewards. Being you one of them and the one that helps the most disinterestedly, I have not the slightest doubt that you have been able to surround yourself with the best and most of them who are like you. :)
But the truth is that the target of my question was not addressed to you specifically. Since at least toward me you've already given me multiple samples repeatedly in what you affirm.
So, it's aimed at everyone else. Because we can not help but think, not even for a single minute, that the majority here are not like you, nor like me, nor like all those you say you know pretty well. ;)
And by the way, did you notice that throughout your response, in no case any of these forms of support correspond to automatisms of any kind? LoL
Some of it is luck, some of it is work, some of it is how I have chosen to approach it but I have met some pretty decent people here who work tirelessly for this place.
There are all sorts much like the real world, the difference here is we see them all more easily.
That's right. We can see them all more easily here.
And that's why I selected a relative newcomer like @newageinv with his comment to elaborate my reply. I bet 95% of all steemians would never think in join an autovote trail/guild if they did not earn even a cent from curation rewards through those 'blind automatic' practices while they were absent.
In fact, I believe that the vast majority wouldn't move a finger and would not have the motivation or will to waste time in it if it were not to get them some kind of financial benefit in return.