For now I am sticking to manual curation. It helps me keep in touch with the posts that I need to comment on. If and when I have sizeable following, I might switch to auto upvotes but for now I'll just manually curate.
PS: On an unrelated topic- have you heard about steem based musing.io?
I looked at musing when it started. I think it was creating a new post for each response, which I didn't like. We have to be careful that 'dapps' don't flood the feed.
On the other hand the questions logged in as non-posts are just comments on one huge post (musing-thread) . Is it possible that this is their way controlling the post traffic generated from their website?
If you ever do a post (a critique or a promotion - your choice) on them, I would love to read your detailed feedback :-)