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I'm not sure it's actually better than nothing. It feeds the perception that getting votes other than whales doesn't matter. A dolphin vote at 1% really DOESN'T matter.

Now, for the trending page stuff the payout algorithm acts as a multiplier so lower voting power votes still have value (if you have SP). But in general, it's bad practice.

At time, 7% trending post get 3-4.00 from me.
31-75 % get only 0.01-0.30 only. For weeks now, my SP hasn't recover 100 %

@rampant
5 hours later, $3.05 , I upvotes 100 % now $3.06 , doesn't justified.
At least my theory is right. Have been testedby me. :P