You say you are against this “They round down votes less than .02sbd” but then you argue in favor of non-linear rewards? You do realize that if they changed to non-linear rewards, then minnows’ votes would be worth even less, right? It would be unlikely that even 10 or possibly 100 “0.01” votes would receive any payout under a non-linear rewards curve.
Where has Ned ever said it was a mistake btw?
Also the experiment that smooth and abit were running was a temporary thing intended to gather data on whether we should switch to a linear rewards curve. It was not something that was ever intended to happen permanently, and the data that was gathered was part of what made the case for switching to linear rewards.