Oh, I don't know whether to laugh or cry!🙃 ... The first thing that comes to mind is Peter Parker's grandfather: with great power comes great responsibility.🤣 So I'm going to be as honest as possible.

• The power down pains me a lot 😕, and yes, I have seen accounts with bad post sometime, but a power down from a whale would be destructive. That said, I think that if he gets it he gets it, but not for fulfilling a "target quota", if he has a bunch of "bad" posts then he's earned it. 😎
• I would go for users with good work, that is, consistency in posts, interesting and well-written content, a visually pleasing structure. It should be seen that they do not "pull" the post, but that they work hard on it.
• Although I would try to prioritize those with less than 70 reputation, because it is difficult to see someone with more than 70 with few votes.
• I think I would not vote post that were already voted by other whales, because sometimes they "accumulate" in a single post while other very good ones do not even reach 5. It would have to be excellent, which is not always the case either.
• I would try to look for users who are just starting, and who show signs of doing a good job, to give them that boost, which we all need sometime to continue to grow.
• The autovote, well...I really don't know if it's a practice among whales, I really don't do it now.But if I have to spend all my time practically curating others and barely have enough left over to create content, maybe at some point I would, but it wouldn't be an overuse.
• I would manually curate, but I would support my Hivecuba community with some percentage in their curation trail, to say otherwise would be dishonest with myself.

Having said all this, it's basically what I do now , but with much less HP. 🤣