What does your blog look like when the autovotes are gone?
I don't think I'll find out what my posts would look like without autovotes because while I do have a post ready to go it's a bit late for when I wanted it (Monday) and too early for when I will next post it (next Monday, because I need to try to find the track again so I can get back on it XD).
However I imagine it would be pretty sparse, I think most of my votes are auto, because most of what I write is technical shenanigans, and I rarely post anything interesting because I work so excruciatingly glacially slowly.
Time really is a thing though isn't it. Alongside the rest of life I need to work out whether I'm flitting around here dropping comments (because people like comments so I try to make as many good ones as I can...or at least ones that will make someone laugh) or actually working (not that I'm doing any of that atm, it's all support stuff which also needs to be done and is taking an inordinate amount of time). And apparently they're all things that "have" to be done if you want to be "serious".
Feels like at school and uni where every class they were convinced that theirs was the most important class of all and filled up the recommended homework/study time like they were the only ones assigning work XD
I may find them interesting if I knew what the technical shenanigans mean but alas, 3D isn't my thing and until then, you will be that creator I occasionally upvote posting stuff I don't understand but still liked :>
The point that you still write a lot of comments, and thoughtful ones, is a commitment and we'd be raising the platform's blogging side value if we got more people doing as you do.
I follow some people here that post technical shenanigans about things I know nothing about. I like to pretend that if I keep reading I may eventually figure it out one day XD
I don't write as many as I would like, I very rarely get off my following feed despite best efforts to get into community feeds and tags, simply because I always have to decide if I'm going to work on stuff to put in the blog or if I'm going to write comments. And while it would be great if more people would put in more effort to get out there and comment all the things, I suspect a lot are in the same boat.
Everyone is busy minding their own business which makes people that go out of their way to bother with you slightly impactful than your usual interaction with your social circle. Sometimes it amazes me to see non-English speakers engage with my stuff which makes me appreciate what I lack on the getting out there and meet people department. There's just not enough time to let that in my headspace most of the time.