Sure, this makes sense. Maintain the influence of the vote even though the vote is not yet verified. I think given the current UI, that would be a fair thing to do and encourage people to hold SP.

I do think that we need a more efficient and better way of content filtering that allows us to subdivide the posts more efficiently and deliver specific content to the people who what to consume it, similar to Reddit and such. Hopefully Steemit's "communities" will deliver an effective way of solving this content discovery issue.