Have a look at some of the trending posts here on Leofinance, you'll see that autovote case is not the case for everyone!
I don't think it is on Hive either.
I'm sure this is why @therealwolf wants the change he's proposing - he's currently thinking 'I'm having to vote shit (or at least mediocre content) to get a curation return and I'd rather not be forced into this'.
So ATM, I think a lot of people are keeping their AVs switched on because 1. there's precious little to vote and 2. Well, it's a damn hassle to keep tweaking it isn't it!
Honestly, the long-form writing is the best habit I've established - you can just zone into something for a couple of days at a time, and then it posts at sometime in the next month - I don't even remember writing today's blog post on RS, it was that long ago I wrote it.
Reactionary keep-up writing is not as productive for me. Then again, there are some posts you have to wait to write and daily-publish for various reasons.
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