I think the bottom line here is if you were wanting to establish if short form posts had a place on STEEM and/or Steemit then you'd have set up the separate account (as you did) and worked on growing it organically.

That would mean you don't upvote yourself at a considerably higher rate than you would upvote others. I looked through your voting history. The vast number of your outgoing votes are at 1 or 3%, sometimes they go into the 30% range but not often. Your self-votes are routinely 74% and higher%

It is that high self-voting that got Bernie's attention, not the form. You can justify all you want but the bottom line is you are pulling funds from the reward pool for yourself at a higher rate than you are distributing them.

If you were selling your delegation, that would be a business exchange between yourself and the buyer without the reward pool being involved.