Looks like we went up a hundred or so places on Minestatus, in like a day or so. Getting money is a small price to pay, I think. In all seriousness, though, in the first three months of Aegis we got 100 per vote, and I never saw any problems come of it.
We went up with the little spam notifications, the payments started earlier today, they aren't that much of a reason. People complain about so much OOC/RP conflicts, like VAs and MAs and things to that sort, but if they get something out of it, it is generally fine. It's so corrupt >.<