Not so much burnt as recycled. Having tried to solve the issue of early self-voting, we now have an algo where we all need to be wary in case the author-curation rewards are too high, possibly even by accident.

the author, from now on, will receive a fixed 75% of the upvotes (plus his own curation rewards for self-voting, just as any other voter) but part of the total curation rewards may be drained away into the general pool.

I hope people adjust their behaviour asap.