Thank you for replying and taking part in this conversation.

As to your question, autovoting is fine in my opinion (I do it myself). But it would be useful to pick such authors for voting whose work you know to be good. I autovote mostly authors whose posts I read anyway. It is very likely that I would've given them a vote but if that vote had been manual, it would've been timed much worse in terms of my curation rewards.