Hi Hive account@aprils, yes, some of the votes were automatic, the accounts have set their votes to follow a curation trail, so when the lead account of the trail votes, so do all of the accounts following it. Many of them won't have read your post. If you use peakd.com, you will be able to see in the Tools section how many views your post got - it may be quite different to the number of votes.
Tagging lots of people that you don't know can be irritating to the people that you've tagged, especially because it is used by some accounts to spam people. You're getting lots of great advice from Hive account@starstrings01, so you are well on your way. Hope you enjoy Hive 😍.

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