I speak in favour of the two kinds of bonuses from voting actively.

The voting system is there to be used, so people should vote. I dream that some people unlike me or castaway (who are here nearly every day) and who come to PM once in a while, read, cast votes.

We must encourage them to do so, and hence there's a bonus. Maybe it should just be that, at level five, you get no more bonus points for the last votes you cast, maybe the number of your level. And for level 8 and above, twice the number of your level of the votes don't get you XP for voting anymore.

Assuming high ranking monks with a number of votes do know what voting is supposed to do, they will still want to spend their votes on worthy nodes, even without a benefit.

Cheers, Sören