As someone picking up a lot of autos for a post, I struggle daily with wanting to write but fearing there is not 'enough' there.  So, two/three times a week is where I've been at for a while.

Autovotes are easy to not stress about, if you post content you're not that comfortable with receiving a lot of rewards on, you can easily forfeit part to send to @hive.fund (the DHF) or something other non-profit or a project you think should get more rewards. It's of course hard to say how much rewards you're going to get but I think many would appreciate the sentiment and not downvote compared to those who never even think about this and post their daily posts out and lose their minds when downvotes do occur, it's easy to see that they only care about the rewards in some cases. 

> *How is hive "easy money", I refuse to believe I'm the only one that gets stressed out by autovotes XD*

Absolutely. One of the many reasons I've always posted less and less when the price of Hive is up.

And, if you get auto-votes, then it puts you in the sites of the big down-voters as well.

Besides when you start calling them out and they zero out all your content, their main reasoning for down-votes is posts with "too many earnings" and "too many upvotes."

There are a few places that have no downvotes I think, none do so well.

The autos do put some pressure on to both create and stay engaged. Personally, I never have or will take them for granted. One thing is though, most of the times the autos are earned over time, where the content and creator become trusted.