Hello @wakeupkitty.

Votes cannot be bought, tagging cur8 doesn't imply auto votes in any way, the only benefit to be our delegator is to get a daily share of our curation rewards.

Quality content can be everything, we do not have a specific field, we value every community or author active on steem, we work close to a small community of Italian authors and have some relationship with the main italy community here on steem.
As said our curation is a mix of automatic and manual, this is to ensure also a good return for our delegators that want to grow their passive income.

We didn't engage very much in comments, that's true, we can definitely improve in this aspect, thanks for let us know.

Cur8 Team