We will send notifications from now on to the inactive users.
There is not much point to that if the user is inactive, is there? They won't see it anyway.
As for the default weekly limit, if someone set a daily limit, they expect that in 7 days they will have voted at least 7 times. It would have made sense to set the weekly limit to 7 so that the many people who have no idea about the change will not get hurt. There are lots of people who have set their votes to those they trust will not post garbage and now don't log in for whatever reason. You just censored their votes with your arbitrary change. So much for the belief in freedom of choice. I urge you to change the default to at least 7 per week or preferably to reflect multiples of whatever their daily limit was set to. Anything less is censorship by you. For those who are active users, they can now go and change their settings as they see fit using the new extra feature.
My belief is that if you are going to provide a free service, then do that without harming anyone. We thank you for your generosity. If you are seeking to control the votes of others, then that is not really a free service, but a form of trade by taking control over others. Be honest and say that up front... I will take control of your votes if you use my service!
I also believe that the reason you made the change was honorable, but misguided. I hope that after reading this and some of the other comments, you will realize your mistake and correct it in the name of true decentralization and freedom of choice.