Yeah for sure, a quick glance at the comment section usually helps with that though. For instance there's days I don't even read the full post of certain authors like tarazkp as I know he's not just shitposting or trying to take advantage of autovotes, etc, often times I find myself reading more of the comments rather than the full post. Just as an example as he's someone I've curated and supported with my votes for years manually.
Same can be said about ocd voting, we often get recommendations/nominations on what to curate, it's not necessary that we always re-read everything other curators/community curators have recommended for votes but a quick glance at the comments on the author's post or the comments of the author themselves usually paints the picture quickly and easily. You can tell if they've at least been trying to not just reply to comments on their own posts but attempted to build connections with others, even if they're too new to not receive a lot of engagement themselves, that's usually enough for us. The thing I don't like is when authors don't even try yet somehow get big and consistent votes landing on their content.