The only thing I care about my reputation score is that it's not negative, because that would affect the visibility of my posts in a bad way. Beyond that, I think that someone's reputation score is not an accurate indicator of the quality of that person's content. Here's why:
- The reputation score itself is a reflection of an individual's activities across the entire Steem blockchain, not any one individual site or dApp. That means that where one person gets their reputation from may not align with another person might expect, depending on which sites they use and how often. When we see that big number on a user's profile page on Steemit, we don't know if that's all from blogging on Steemit, asking and answering questions on Musing, posting videos on Dlive, posting memes on Dmania, or some combination thereof.
- Reputation score can be manipulated significantly in several ways. A user can purchase upvotes from bidbots and other vote sellers, and the values of those votes will influence that user's reputation in a positive way, regardless of the actual quality of that user's content and/or comments. Also, a large orca or whale can use their SP and repeated votes to push another user's reputation way up or way down depending on the whale's perception of the target user and without regard to whether or not the general public would see such a move as justified. Perhaps the two most notable incidents of this involve (1) the user that currently has the highest reputation score on the blockchain, and (2) the whale whose main account once had a reputation in the 60s, got dropped in one shot by a Steemit Inc. employee to the -10s, and then got back up to the 60s.
Those are the main reasons why I don't judge others by their reputation score. Instead, I read through some of their content before I make my own independent judgment on what kind of user I think they are. As for myself, I'm not setting any reputation goals. If I get to 60 or 65 before the end of the year, great. If I don't, I'm not going to sweat over it.
I care really deeply on my Reputation Score and here is why.
When I first joined this platform, it was hard for me to get noticed by others. Many people here often advice newbies that the main key to survive on this platform is "engagement", However based on my own personal experience, when you only have a low reputation score, no friends and a low Steem Power chances are they will treat you as a Bot/Spammer or worse only fishing for upvotes.
That is why the first thing I did was increase my reputation score to a decent level, along with posting decent quality contents I boosted some of my posts to get visibility and also increase my reputation little by little until I got around Rep 55.
One thing I've noticed after reaching Rep 55 is that people now start to treat me seriously. Some now reply on my comments on their blog posts and is now treated as a human, not an alt or bot account. I really do think it was mostly because of my decent Reputation as I have never changed anything and my SP still isn't that big.
My goal right now is to reach Rep 65 without using BidBots. I myself have stopped using bidbots for almost 2 months now.
I care about reputation on Steemit a great deal. However, I've already achieved my main goal of 70 reputation so it's left a lot of space to ponder what its value is, truly. This is due to the fact that it's somewhat "pay-to-win:" it measures the votes you get, and huge ones make a big shift, so you can just buy them from bid bots or smartmarket.
The Steem User Authority project (@steem-ua) was just created to try and create a better, less exploitable reputation algorithm. It's really exciting for those like me who want to improve my interaction with the community and need a more intricate incentive. However, since it's best to keep setting higher goals to motivate oneself: I'd like to hit 75 reputation as my next target! (that will probably take more than 6 months to achieve.)
Joining steemit I always look at users having 60-70+ reputation with envy. I set myself a target of reaching 60 and yes I am at 63 now. I am looking forward to 70.
I believe after Quality posts, Steempower. Reputation should be the next thing users must look out for.
If not for the issue of bidbots, users with high reputation means the user worked for it and you can be sure that the user will dish out delightful articles for you to read.
It means the user knows the in and out of Steemit, is a respected member of the community.
We have the user activity by @steem-ua which looks to be unbiased. Looking at the ranking. It is still safe to say that most users with high reputation on the platform are also leading in the @steem-ua list. What does this mean.
It implies you should guard your reputation. After Quality posts and Steempower your reputation should be the next thing you focus on.
Reputation score was really a matter where everyone must care.
See, reputation scores denotes who you are in the community, roughly guessing that 70% of the steemians in the community really doesn't know the personally the person that they are interacting.
Your reputation score will be a good clue how you behave in the community, do you make spam? do you plagiarize your contents? do you tend to interact with others?
Well this questions will might give others a clue about your steemit behaviors, about your contents and even your intentions.
So for me, reputation score was definitely important and must be look at
Frankly I don't worry all that much about my reputation score. I wont say that I do not care for it completely but rather that I don't find it all that meaningful in truly indicating somebodies true reputation in the Steem community. Therefore, I haven't really set any targets for myself on my reputation score count.
In fact I am far more excited about the new 'Steem User Authority' project. The 'User Authority' or 'UA' uses far more delicate and useful parameters to judge a steemians true standing in the Steem community.
It is easier to say "there is nothing to reputation score" which may be true to some big extent. But since human are "swayed" by figures, appearance and stuffs like that. Reputation score "matters" on the surface.
A steemian with a reputation score of above 60 will easily be regarded as a "veteran" of some sort in the eyes of a newbie or outsider. If not for the same been "abnomalized" by the voting bots, an account with a reputation of 60 or 70 must have pay some dues in terms efforts or time.
Looking deeper, the real reputation of an account will then depend on the observer taste of contents. On steemit platform in particular, a post below some word contents or not observing a particular creative standard set by some are considered as trashy. Just a picture and a sentence post may be trashy to some but oozee creativity and genuineness to some.
In a nutshell, reputation score like appearance can be deceptive. It takes more deeper looking into an account to get the real reputation.
Saying I don't pay attention to my reputation score, especially when it increased is not honesty but I don't pay much mind to it. I should get to 60 this month or next which will few good for few seconds, beyond that I don't know or not thinking about it.
The only thing I care about my reputation score is that it's not negative, because that would affect the visibility of my posts in a bad way. Beyond that, I think that someone's reputation score is not an accurate indicator of the quality of that person's content. Here's why:
- The reputation score itself is a reflection of an individual's activities across the entire Steem blockchain, not any one individual site or dApp. That means that where one person gets their reputation from may not align with another person might expect, depending on which sites they use and how often. When we see that big number on a user's profile page on Steemit, we don't know if that's all from blogging on Steemit, asking and answering questions on Musing, posting videos on Dlive, posting memes on Dmania, or some combination thereof.
- Reputation score can be manipulated significantly in several ways. A user can purchase upvotes from bidbots and other vote sellers, and the values of those votes will influence that user's reputation in a positive way, regardless of the actual quality of that user's content and/or comments. Also, a large orca or whale can use their SP and repeated votes to push another user's reputation way up or way down depending on the whale's perception of the target user and without regard to whether or not the general public would see such a move as justified. Perhaps the two most notable incidents of this involve (1) the user that currently has the highest reputation score on the blockchain, and (2) the whale whose main account once had a reputation in the 60s, got dropped in one shot by a Steemit Inc. employee to the -10s, and then got back up to the 60s.
Those are the main reasons why I don't judge others by their reputation score. Instead, I read through some of their content before I make my own independent judgment on what kind of user I think they are. As for myself, I'm not setting any reputation goals. If I get to 60 or 65 before the end of the year, great. If I don't, I'm not going to sweat over it.
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I care really deeply on my Reputation Score and here is why.
When I first joined this platform, it was hard for me to get noticed by others. Many people here often advice newbies that the main key to survive on this platform is "engagement", However based on my own personal experience, when you only have a low reputation score, no friends and a low Steem Power chances are they will treat you as a Bot/Spammer or worse only fishing for upvotes.
That is why the first thing I did was increase my reputation score to a decent level, along with posting decent quality contents I boosted some of my posts to get visibility and also increase my reputation little by little until I got around Rep 55.
One thing I've noticed after reaching Rep 55 is that people now start to treat me seriously. Some now reply on my comments on their blog posts and is now treated as a human, not an alt or bot account. I really do think it was mostly because of my decent Reputation as I have never changed anything and my SP still isn't that big.
My goal right now is to reach Rep 65 without using BidBots. I myself have stopped using bidbots for almost 2 months now.
I care about reputation on Steemit a great deal. However, I've already achieved my main goal of 70 reputation so it's left a lot of space to ponder what its value is, truly. This is due to the fact that it's somewhat "pay-to-win:" it measures the votes you get, and huge ones make a big shift, so you can just buy them from bid bots or smartmarket.
The Steem User Authority project (@steem-ua) was just created to try and create a better, less exploitable reputation algorithm. It's really exciting for those like me who want to improve my interaction with the community and need a more intricate incentive. However, since it's best to keep setting higher goals to motivate oneself: I'd like to hit 75 reputation as my next target! (that will probably take more than 6 months to achieve.)
Joining steemit I always look at users having 60-70+ reputation with envy. I set myself a target of reaching 60 and yes I am at 63 now. I am looking forward to 70.
I believe after Quality posts, Steempower. Reputation should be the next thing users must look out for.
If not for the issue of bidbots, users with high reputation means the user worked for it and you can be sure that the user will dish out delightful articles for you to read.
It means the user knows the in and out of Steemit, is a respected member of the community.
We have the user activity by @steem-ua which looks to be unbiased. Looking at the ranking. It is still safe to say that most users with high reputation on the platform are also leading in the @steem-ua list. What does this mean.
It implies you should guard your reputation. After Quality posts and Steempower your reputation should be the next thing you focus on.
Reputation score was really a matter where everyone must care.
See, reputation scores denotes who you are in the community, roughly guessing that 70% of the steemians in the community really doesn't know the personally the person that they are interacting.
Your reputation score will be a good clue how you behave in the community, do you make spam? do you plagiarize your contents? do you tend to interact with others?
Well this questions will might give others a clue about your steemit behaviors, about your contents and even your intentions.
So for me, reputation score was definitely important and must be look at
Reputation score is good for a steemit user because it is like a trustscore on the platform that can make people
to know how trustful you are on the platform,a spammer is likely to keep having negative reputation score
especially when he or she gets alot of massive downvotes of their contents,some people never knew
the importance of reputation score until the byteball airdrops for steemit users that used reputation score as
the major requirement to determine how much the steemit user will earn from the airdrop,that shows that
reputation score is not something to joke with,i have personally said that i want to get to a reputation score
of 60 and above before the end of this year and i know it is possible if i create good contents that get massive upvotes...
Frankly I don't worry all that much about my reputation score. I wont say that I do not care for it completely but rather that I don't find it all that meaningful in truly indicating somebodies true reputation in the Steem community. Therefore, I haven't really set any targets for myself on my reputation score count.
In fact I am far more excited about the new 'Steem User Authority' project. The 'User Authority' or 'UA' uses far more delicate and useful parameters to judge a steemians true standing in the Steem community.
It is easier to say "there is nothing to reputation score" which may be true to some big extent. But since human are "swayed" by figures, appearance and stuffs like that. Reputation score "matters" on the surface.
A steemian with a reputation score of above 60 will easily be regarded as a "veteran" of some sort in the eyes of a newbie or outsider. If not for the same been "abnomalized" by the voting bots, an account with a reputation of 60 or 70 must have pay some dues in terms efforts or time.
Looking deeper, the real reputation of an account will then depend on the observer taste of contents. On steemit platform in particular, a post below some word contents or not observing a particular creative standard set by some are considered as trashy. Just a picture and a sentence post may be trashy to some but oozee creativity and genuineness to some.
In a nutshell, reputation score like appearance can be deceptive. It takes more deeper looking into an account to get the real reputation.
Saying I don't pay attention to my reputation score, especially when it increased is not honesty but I don't pay much mind to it. I should get to 60 this month or next which will few good for few seconds, beyond that I don't know or not thinking about it.
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