I confess to you that I vote and edit posts exclusively manually.
Of course there are days when time is really short and I can't read all the posts well and maybe leave a comment as I would like; in any case, I always retrieve them all and manually vote for the authors I prefer, perhaps after a few days, yes.
In reality, I see the vote as a reward for the quality of the posts, so before expressing it, I always like to read carefully the post that I'm going to reward; of course there are authors who I know will have high quality but this is one more reason to read their posts more thoroughly and create interactions and exchanges that I am sure will lead to my growth; maybe on these last authors I happen to cast my vote first and then read the post calmly as they are always long and articulated posts but this only happens because I want to read those posts well, among other things most of the time a single one is not enough for me reading since I want to get to the bottom of the thoughts of the authors.
Of course I'm not against automatic voting, I believe that like everything it should be used in a balanced and wise way, it being understood that, if you have the possibility, manual voting is always better.
As always, your thoughts are great!😉