Yeah as I said there's an acceptable amount of it and that can be pretty high too, as long as people are being a little bit responsible there's most of the time nothing wrong with it.
For instance if I really liked an author who also voted my content often or had me on auto and I'd also vote him back, the issue is when one or both decide to stop putting in effort into the posts and engage with people commenting on them or stop caring about the rest of the community completely. If you continue voting these sort of authors even though you see that they're not "worthy" anymore, you become part of the problem which is something that can happen often with autovoters who don't check what they're voting on for longer times.
Downvotes are a good solution to that, if anything to remind the authors that this isn't meant to be free rewards and that people won't stand for such activity, if they ignore the warnings and adjustments or the usual where they start lashing out, then the ecosystem is usually better without them.
Yes, that is a case where downvotes can be good. I also think it is important for people to be actively checking their autovotes. I don't have a problem with autovotes but make sure you are reviewing them regularly and cutting out the flowers that have turned to weeds.
Yeah, tools like hivestats* should make it easy for any autovoter to check up on it. "Why am I receiving less curation rewards on this upvote? Oh he got downvoted, okay let me see why, alright seems fair, removing author from my autovote list".
Yeah, hivestats is a great tool. I think sometimes we all need to be better stewards of our own accounts.
This is sounding interesting, but how can someone stop an auto votes on one’s post?
You could just decline rewards for the post, but that is kind of the extreme of the spectrum.
Oh! Alright
Thanks