I'm aware of some of these studies. I support the downvotes when they're being used a tool to combat abuse. The downvotes are being abused though, by people who should know better, but they don't. It's embarrassing to be associated with morons like that.

A good artist will never sell themselves short. We don't put prices on our work here. There's no limit. A musician might sell an album at 20 per unit. They have no idea how many units will sell. If they go platinum, they won't be telling people to stop buying. A Youtuber doesn't tell people to stop watching at a million views. This concept of "reward disagreement" is being misinterpreted or spun intentionally to penalize people as a show of strength. Reward disagreement means you're doing something wrong and I disagree with a wrongdoing being rewarded.

And honestly, when it comes to SMT's, I'm not excited to go work for an unproven token that won't have the potential future of something like Steem once did or Hive could have. That's a story for another day though.