Ok better clarify. I would love the idea of increase the % of curation reward at 50%. It would be great and believe me I am voting as well myself to increase my SP.
Regarding the 5% lost self voting means that ONLY if you vote yourself your vote power will drop down of 5%. Believe me if my voting power will drop 5% i will prefer read more posts than I usually do instead of voting my posts.

For the other part of the coin... we will have much more curators than writers and will be good or bad having only bots voting.
Ofr the other