I'm not missing the point. There are two separate issues: 1) avoiding having it featured after you submit it, and 2) if you avoid that, don't have it count against your submissions.
You're not considering the significant amount of programming and additional data tracking that would be necessary on EVERY meme in order to be able to track the FEW cases where someone submits something, decides WITHIN THE SAME DAY they don't want it featured, GETS THE DELETION QUICK ENOUGH TO AVOID BEING FEATURED and then SUBMITS SOMETHING ELSE all within the same day.
All for (almost always) NON-PAYING members ...