When I suggest that voters consider voting later, that doesn't mean voters should be required to do this, or harassed if they don't.

I agree. But if they willingly do it, I am sure you will be okay with that.

If you burn your own coins, that is philanthropy. If you vote to burn (i.e. not distribute) funds from the reward pool, that is a vote on how to best use the reward pool.

This is actually an important point. I am curious to gather data to show if voting for the burnpost is better, or voting for a conventional content is better. I think @abh12345 still has a subscription of steem sql, I will request him to investigate that point.

That seems like exactly the sort of tradeoff that should be left to the voters.

@smooth, it is currently left to the voter. All we are trying to accomplish is the find a happy medium which give us a sort of temporary solution within our existing boundary conditions