I don't understand how a self-respecting developer can seriously consider implementing such a horrible hack as a temporary solution.
You are being paid to develop Bitcoin, right? Then come up with a real solution, and not some half-baked, dirty quick fix....
Yeah im gonna have to tend to agree with this guy... There has got to be a better solution.
And this better solution is....
(come on, guys, you are so smart)
Maybe you could add another fee for every output below a certain limit (including some coin age magicz?)
Right now there are websites mass-sending single satoshis with send-many or something like this, so the current fee rules aren't appropiate.