i second your view also and i think that vote automation will ruin the good thing that POB has going for it. i myself am not an active author like I use to and I understand that it doesn't profit me in any way. so in order to change people mentality, manual curation is the way out and that's what POB is trying to achieve. i notice some big whales coming unto the platform of late and they may want to form voting rings to recoup their investment without really doing anything for the platform. so I think manual voting should continue to exist