Hey @creativetruth! Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. It is true I do keep an eye on what I am curating even the auto curating - though not every single post. You have a very good point about supporting minnows and I could definitely be putting more time and thought into that than I have.. thank you for that suggestion and inspiring me. One thing I do do is delegate to projects like @minnowbooster, @minnowsupport and @qurator who are making efforts to support and highlight quality minnows.
Lately I feel like my life is running on timers. "My VP is full, have to find a good post. Going to bed, better find 4 more posts, so I can find 3 more when I wake up before I head to work." It can be really tiring trying to maximize voting power all the time.
That's exactly why I decided to automate some of my voting power in auto pilot and that way I can be inspired to manually curate when I am inspired and not feel like it is something I constantly have to be tied to :)