Yeah, personally I got pretty turned off when I wrote what I though was really valuable articles, one even got about 60 upvotes but I got almost no reward for it and got some better reward for a mediocre article with a few upvotes. I mean I like the idea, but in reality it just doesn't work as well. Or at least the reward is not proportionate to effort and quality but rather to luck/knowing tricks/being know or something like that.