It is an indicator that shows how “trusted or appreciated by the community” you are.
It is a tool that prevent user with low reputation to harm other users.
How it works
Reputation points are calculated using the mathematical function Log base 10.
The main effect is that a reputation of 60 is 10 times stronger than the reputation of 59.
It is the same for a negative reputation. A reputation of -8 is 10 times weaker than the reputation of -7.
People with a low reputation cannot harm the reputation of someone with a strong reputation.
This explains why creating a bot that systematically flags other posts is useless, unless the bot has a high reputation, something that will be hard to achieve for a “flag bot”. In no time, the bot’s reputation will be ruined and it will become harmless.
There is no lower or upper limit to reputation.
About Reward Shares
Before continuing to see how reputation points are “computed”, you need to understand the concept of “Reward Shares“
When you vote for a post or comment, you tell the system to take some money (the reward) from the Global Reward Pool and give 75% of this reward to the author (the author reward) and to share the remaining 25% of the reward between the people that voted for the post (the curation reward).
The more votes for the post from people with high voting power, the higher both rewards will be.
But the curation reward is not distributed equally among all voters.
Depending on the timing of your vote, the voting power you have and how much you allocated to your vote (percentage gauge), you will get a tiny part of the pie or a bigger one.
The size of your part is called the reward share
How reputation is “computed”
Each time some vote for a post or a comment, the vote can have an impact on the author reputation, depending on:
the reputation of the voter
the Reward Share of the voter
How to raise your reputation
The best way to increase your reputation to get votes from people with a positive reputation and, even better, with a lot of voting power.
To achieve this goal:
publish quality posts. Forget quantity, it's about quality!
take part in the discussions (you can get extra rewards and reputation points for your comments)
vote carefully (do not vote for crap posts, vote for appropriate content and authors)
increase the number of followers and build your following list
Conclusion
I hope you now better understand how reputation works and how to build it.
Remember, reputation is a key factor which reflect how you behave and how the members of the community evaluate your work.
As in real life, having a high level of reputation is a hard work and a long run.
And as in real life, ruining it can be very fast. Then it will be even harder to rebuild.
If you aim at top reputation, focus on quality and on a constructive attitude.
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What is reputation for?
The reputation has two roles:
It is an indicator that shows how “trusted or appreciated by the community” you are.
It is a tool that prevent user with low reputation to harm other users.
How it works
Reputation points are calculated using the mathematical function Log base 10.
The main effect is that a reputation of 60 is 10 times stronger than the reputation of 59.
It is the same for a negative reputation. A reputation of -8 is 10 times weaker than the reputation of -7.
People with a low reputation cannot harm the reputation of someone with a strong reputation.
This explains why creating a bot that systematically flags other posts is useless, unless the bot has a high reputation, something that will be hard to achieve for a “flag bot”. In no time, the bot’s reputation will be ruined and it will become harmless.
There is no lower or upper limit to reputation.
About Reward Shares
Before continuing to see how reputation points are “computed”, you need to understand the concept of “Reward Shares“
When you vote for a post or comment, you tell the system to take some money (the reward) from the Global Reward Pool and give 75% of this reward to the author (the author reward) and to share the remaining 25% of the reward between the people that voted for the post (the curation reward).
The more votes for the post from people with high voting power, the higher both rewards will be.
But the curation reward is not distributed equally among all voters.
Depending on the timing of your vote, the voting power you have and how much you allocated to your vote (percentage gauge), you will get a tiny part of the pie or a bigger one.
The size of your part is called the reward share
How reputation is “computed”
Each time some vote for a post or a comment, the vote can have an impact on the author reputation, depending on:
the reputation of the voter
the Reward Share of the voter
How to raise your reputation
The best way to increase your reputation to get votes from people with a positive reputation and, even better, with a lot of voting power.
To achieve this goal:
publish quality posts. Forget quantity, it's about quality!
take part in the discussions (you can get extra rewards and reputation points for your comments)
vote carefully (do not vote for crap posts, vote for appropriate content and authors)
increase the number of followers and build your following list
Conclusion
I hope you now better understand how reputation works and how to build it.
Remember, reputation is a key factor which reflect how you behave and how the members of the community evaluate your work.
As in real life, having a high level of reputation is a hard work and a long run.
And as in real life, ruining it can be very fast. Then it will be even harder to rebuild.
If you aim at top reputation, focus on quality and on a constructive attitude.
Thanks for your time.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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View this answer on Musing.io
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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View this answer on Musing.io
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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View this answer on Musing.io
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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