"(@ned it's really annoying you can't decline rewards in the UI when authoring a post...)"
What a terrible idea to take out the option to decline payout on each post, and only have it in the settings page to make that option affect all posts/comments.
Does he not see any cases where one would want to decline payout only on certain posts? Or did he just want to make it take longer for people to do so?
It has to be one of those two options.