It was down when I originally made the note or early post.

Yes, true, many auto-voting is done because of trust in the authors content. But I'm more picking on the principle of autovoting, and how it undermines the principle of evaluating and valuing content to give it an upvote. Bots aren't going anywhere. I'm just pointing out how it looks to the outside when people notice this. Social media where a large part of the activity is automatically generated :P hehe.