A bit of caution and awareness would certainly be healthy, if not outright fear. Consensus is established through the voting process, but with linear rewards it's pretty meaningless. The change to linear rewards was implemented to satisfy populist demand, but I think it was misguided. R^2 may be beyond what's necessary, but to reward consensus R^1 is unhelpful.

I'd like to see a return to R^2 (or maybe R^1.5?), symmetrical rewards for downvotes as for upvotes on the same curve, and negative SP curation penalties for voting in opposition to the final consensus. Since it would all be on the same curve, the penalties would scale with the amount of voting power used and the strength/weight of the consensus opposed.