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RE: HF 19, the voting power and you! (especially for newbies)
can you please give the reason for decreasing reputation level? is that yesterday I have 34 and now only 9 ! what is the reputation actually matter?
Reputation matters. If it shrinks under 0 your posts get greyed out and people need to click an "I want to see" to read them.
The higher your reputation, the higher you can influence the reputation of others - I think it only works when you rep is higher then the targets.
It is a measure of trust on this platform.
Lowering reputation happens when someone flags you (for whatever reason).
Looking at your last post (which is hidden as I wrote above) you have 2 flags (if you click on the votes-popup you see + and - votes=flags).
2 users have flagged you, one of them is @blacklist-a a bot that "hunts" for plagiarism.
Cheetah is a bot looking for such copied content and announces it in the comments.
If you are of the opinion that you did not plagiarize, you can go to the chats. I don't know the exact details, but here might be good start https://steemit.chat/channel/steemcleaners-public