So send .1 VNL to yourself repeatedly and increase your stake bounty...? Or will that just split the stake into smaller pieces holistically?
It won't increase the amount of your stake, it will increase the frequency. The amount of your stake is based on the amount of the txn being staked...you won't get much (if anything) for a .1 VNL txn.
So if you have 100K VNL...if you have a single 100K txn, over time it would stake the same amount as 100, 1K txns...it would just take longer between stakes. In the end, you still just have 100K staking.