For the most part the score seems to show little more than the color of one's nose. The people who are good at cowtowing to whales have high reputations.
I tend to be more concerned with newbies and the large number of outsiders on the system.
The reputation has some value in that it shows spam accounts.
Although a newbie can get destroyed by a single downvote from a whale.
The best way to improve the system would be to reduce the weight of the whales in determining the value of the upvote.
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