I use to be 100% all manual curation. After the HF I switched over to auto voting for a sizeable chunk of it. I simply can't read nor will be around in the first 5 minutes. It really did not mean much in the past when I would be days later reading and voting on something. Now there is that incentive to get a vote down. I simply will move votes around and adjust now as needed.

I still leave myself some VP but those posts I tend to show up after it already got the votes. I just don't read or want spend 24/7 on a site when I could be doing so much more elsewhere.

Kind of of sad I had to go that route but I suspect I earn more now due to it.