1. Or you do not carefully read the message or not understand its essence (or my English such broken  ).
I wrote that I prefer second way: if someone wants to - he writes a PM and takes his share, he not wants - his money goes to the bounty pot. And I do not intend to ask my share in that case. But everyone should have a choice. You can not force a person to make a donation.
2. I vote almost every day for 5-10 times from adding on mintpal (I got paid for about two days, and sent it into the faucet. Other days I did not fill out the form).
3. I have much more than one stake, I bought some coins on sharex (because i have faith in the dev) and addition 2k not make much of a benefit.