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RE: NewSteem Onslaught Continues as Vote Sellers Capitulate
while it's more profitable and way more time-efficient to auto-upvote the ones you know will get a lot of upvotes in the first place
Incorrect. When a lot of people start autovoting the same author, they undermine each other's curation rewards. The best curation rewards will be reaped by manually curating and finding the good stuff that is yet to be discovered by other curators. Auto-voting more efficient for sure, but not the most profit you can achieve with your stake.
It may not be more profitable to auto-upvote, but as @costanza says - it will be more time efficient. If you're talking about reward for effort then that will be the way to go for the big stakeholders and indeed it looks like it might be going that way.