His rep is because he self votes 10 times a day consistency.
The fact you can gain rep by self-voting yourself and he has a lot of SP (mostly delegated from Rancho, so yes indirectly it is because of him) voting himself 10 times a day.
I said this months ago that his rep was going to get untouchable.
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Good points and thanks for the chart. Interesting.
For shits and grins, we'll also calculate without his self votes and include that rep calculation. In retrospect, that's what we should have been betting on.
Now, I do understand some potential cons if the rep system is modified to only depend on rshares due to attacks against the Steem users experience from outside saboteurs.
Maybe, a more conservative solution would be once we deem criteria in which an account is established as trusted that downvotes will be able to affect higher rep users as well.
Perhaps, a few metrics to consider would be diversity of incoming and outgoing votes and community interaction to name a couple.
The rep system should be revised so it will be more difficult to game. I think it's possible but that's above my pay grade. ;)
I think it should be an actual rating system like yelp, amazon, and almost everything. Any weight given to stake should be capped.
Damn. You were not kidding @themarkymark!
Calculated without self votes and was surprised at the drastic difference that made. H for Haejin. H for hype.
So, any ideas from where we can go from here. As long as he can pull a profit, he's going to keep exploiting. It's shit.
The effects from ranchos upvotes are greater than the effect from his self votes.
No, they are not, not when it comes to rep. Rancho's vote do nothing for his rep.
That isn't accurate according to the code. Bernies vote does nothing for anybody's rep, but all upvotes count as long as the voter does not have negative rep.
https://steemit.com/reputation/@moeknows/some-interesting-facts-about-reputation-on-steemit