Hey just lurking on this topic and giving my 2 cents of a user before signing off, it's interesting to see it like that splitted on peakd, it's the way it is (depending on the communities, etc).
"If your post gets downvoted, it does not mean you lost your income. You only lost the potential income."
I would put it more, "I didn't earn (nothing earned nothing lost) the potential income" because someone decided so. Also those downvotes i believe also blanks the curators money like you highlighted in that one so about half is from curators...
Not disagreeing with the downvote function btw, it's just how it is no ? I just don't like the FAT downvotes on journalistic articles / investigations, including medical information.