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.