As long as you are pulling in some views, the threespeak account does a really good job of curating usually. I'd say that 9/10 of my videos end up getting a chunky vote from that account. That alone balances out the high 11% usually since they are giving it right back by way of vote.
A temporary solution for any of the upload issues you have is to format your post on PeakD and then just copy and paste all of it into the video description as you are uploading it. Saving to your drafts on PeakD is also a great way to make sure that you never lose your post if encoding fails.
After seeing some of the comments today, it seems that the 11% is justified and going towards making sure 3Speak is a success. I'd say that once HIVE and SPK go big, these small percentages can probably be reduced even more. The thing to keep in mind is that many of us being rewarded on Hive and 3Speak most likely wouldn't earn on any of the legacy Web2 social media. Even if we somehow managed to find success, there are so many rules there. We have it better here.
I thank you for your valuable input though.
I feel sorry for saying like that before, after reading the comments. I think they will have their reasons for fixing it at 11%.