There is so many unwritten rules on the chain in my honest opinion and not everyone know about them - every time someone downvote should make a "note" or "comment" to the post.
I think autovotes are hard to remove - unless we talk to those people that upvote some content by default just because they brown nose them since beginning of Hive existence and it stays liked that. I don't even want to dwell into huge chunks of delegations that happened 7 years ago and some people ride on it until today.
TBF less HP you have less you care what you vote for with bigger chunk your responsibility should be bigger.
On the end of the day not everyone has time to manually curate ( I prefer do it manually ) but from time to time there should be some special events on blockchain like once a year for each thing something like " COMMUNITY CHECK REMINDERS " - Re-evaluations of autovotes week , WITNESS RE-EVALUATION WEEK , PROPOSAL RE-EVALUATION WEEK and so on.
KE isn't perfect - what If someone do 10 times more outside Hive for Hive , but someone need those funds to run some initiatives off chain. How are you going to justify this ?
RE: Rethinking Hive author rewards: How can we improve the distribution of rewards?