Thanks for the info. I'm a little sad all of this isn't explained in the FAQ but faqit. I have a question though:

If I took that 10,000 SP delegation and instead gave out ten thousand 1 SP delegations to people who then used that one SP delegation to self vote – I would have affected the reward pool in exactly the same way as if I gave it all to myself.

That's not entirely true! Because whoever has the 10kSP gets more rewards. Strictly speaking, yeah, it doesn't affect the reward pool, but it does affect rewards?

Also, Hive account@freebornangle is not a valid user. Was this used just as an example?

Cheers