I have had several stages as a voter.

The truth is that, in this aspect of HIVE, you also evolve as you get to know the way blockchain works. When I didn't know much I voted what I liked, then you become aware of HP.

Then I learned to vote to maximize curation gains, but I always lost to the bots. When I grew more with my HP, I became a hybrid curator: automatic for authors recognized by me and who had grown together, manual to support new and worthwhile content.

Soon the HP was higher when we made the jump to HIVE and I realized I couldn't keep up with curating everything because I'd have to sit around all day. Now, with the new HF, this problem is solved. I usually cure with my account in two rounds a day and keep follow some voters that maximize my curation gains. This will no longer be necessary and the power goes back to me, to vote ALL manual, in the same two daily rounds.