@smooth actually brought up this exact idea in @snowflake's post. It is a good idea and I'm not opposed.

Two arguments against it are:

1. At least from an impression perspective, it seems to be a misaligned incentive. Do we really want the message to users to be that we are encouraging users to not vote?
2. Any whale that did still use their voting power (with the absence of most of the other whales voting) would have a huge dominated say in the allocation of rewards, since their vote would be such a large portion of the voting stake.