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What is Steemauto?

@Steemauto is an open source project that was developed to provide steemit users the option to automate tasks. Some of the features that they provide are:

• Scheduling future post to publish automatically
• Curation Trails
• Fanbase (used to upvote your favorite author's post automatically)
• Comment upvoting (used to upvote friends comment's on your post automatically)
• Claiming rewards

Last week after being encouraged to use the project I decided to give it a try. I signed up for a curation trail for one of the communities I regularly participate in on discord. Then I started adding my favorite content creators here on steemit to my "fanbase" settings.

It literally took me only a few minutes as the process was very easy. Kudos to Hive account@mahdiyari for developing a user friendly project that will benefit many steemit users. With that being said parts of Hive account@steemauto particularly "fanbase" and "comment upvoting" (autovote features) are not for me.

I value engagement and you should too.

Authentic interactions between users on steemit are vital to the success of the platform. Making sure to engage with the people you follow and those who follow you will ultimately be a big determinant of your personal success along with steemit's as well.

This is why I have decided against using the autovote features of Hive account@steemauto. I noticed that I immediately began to engage less with the very people that I want to support the most. With the automatic upvotes I found myself scrolling past their post because it had already been upvoted.

Also automatic upvotes don't help the author improve the quality of their work. If I blindly like everything the author post how are they supposed to differentiate between poor and quality post? As a user on the platform I feel its my duty to be selective in regards to which post I upvote and promote.

What are your thoughts?

Let me know what you think. Do you feel that some features of Hive account@steemauto will hurt the platform in the long run? Are you a user of their different features and if so which ones?

I can see myself using the autovote features in the future when I am on vacation away from the computer, but I won't be subscribing to them on a day to day basis.