Impressive information, thanks!

As for fees, someone did the math, and due to the 1000 SEM burn, your asking fee of 1-2% would *never* regain the initial burn, it'd be operating at a loss, even if hardware were free...  that seems unreasonable?
At the minimum, as there's 35k votes, and the user threw away 1000, that should at least count as a 'vote'  so 1/35 = 2.8% at the bare minimum without recouping any of the initial 1000 burned, so still losing SEM..   Think at 5-8% fee it was something like a year to break even? 25% is like 3 months to break even.

Also you might consider updating your table to add SEM/vote, as it looked like animal pool was really high paying, but doing the math, it was the lowest one.