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I feel like that would be open to manipulation

From my analysis I know that 5% resp. 8% of ALL steemit posts start with "Welcome" resp. "Thank". Together with the monetarily enforced positivity and re-enforcment in the way you described above, I can only consider the platform an experiment.
Your current rep is 67.392933 btw.

are you sure? I think my rep has changed, you better make a bot to update that dynamically

I'm pretty sure, yes.
The ranking of people in a linear oder, that the bot uses, was made at a particular date. However, those numbers are "live". Now it's 67.394367.

You're so cool!

You're so cool!

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