Yes I travel for a job and spend a lot of time away from the internet; so its just not possible to manually curate every day. If we start to penalize auto voting then I may as well power down my hive and sell it for something else. That is the issue. Investors wont keep funds here if the only way to make a return is labour intensive manual curation. Capital has to have some value too in a stake based system. I currently auto follow various photographers and bloggers that I know have a high quality and want to support and also quite a few manual curation trails (like photofeed and photocircle) to provide support for those photographic communities. I set it to keep 70% of my vote mana available so I can manually vote as well when I have the time.