I manually curate but blend it between the "new page" and drop a vote on something that will reach at least the threshold vote to earn an award. This is only currently because my vote isn't sufficient enough alone to reach the .02 dust threshold. Once it reaches that threshold I will be more specific with my voting habits. I have been below 50% vote power for a couple weeks now so I'm spreading my little wealth around as much as possible, good ol' street walker.
I do however spend more of my time voting on things that come from my followed pages and groups. I am part of the @naturalmedicine group, although not an often poster, but I do follow their shares and vote on as many of those that I can because that's important content here!
I also try to find new people and support them. I've found a couple over the past several weeks so I try to help out the newcomers. I explain the best way to connect with people is via comment sections of large blogs because I know how difficult it was when I started. Not to try to get brownie points but I usually point them to your blog because you are a large account, get lots of comments and followers, and actually talk with your followers when they comment something meaningful on your posts. Hopefully they follow through with my advice!

Reading the comments here, I like that most of the people that follow you are into manual curation. I think that's important! We are still standing strong against these auto-vote bot groups.