This will only empower abuse, if I could negate every vote cast by this system I would. This is nothing short of blocktrades self voting by other means. This combined with linear rewards simply lets block trades resell its percentage of allowed inflation allocation and thus undermines rewards for other users and exempts blocktrades from contributing to general reward pool.

I haven’t investigated the pricing, but the only potentially redeeming approach would be if the cost of purchasing delegation was greater than rewards earnable by self voting, but this would be a huge cash cow for bt.