Eventually, hopefully, the autovoters will move their votes to authors who are more engaged and bring more views to their content.
Nope, the autovoters will move their votes away from authors only when and because their "curation" rewards would be diminished by the downvotes that those same authors potentially would receive. But for no other reason. They really don't give a damn if those authors respond to comments, engage, withdraw their earnings or whatever.
RE: Value