Thanks for reading @hannalicious! After playing around a ton with steem.cool, I observed that each time I received an upvote from someone ranked higher than me, I received an automatic increase of 1 billion or more REP. This is what actually helped me advance even faster to the next level.
On the flip side, I post a lot each day - more comments than blog posts - and while I earn pretty decent on blog posts and comments, the amount of times I post doesn't affect my REP. Thus based on my personal experience, my experiments with steem.cool and after PMing some of the whales, I came to the conclusion that higher-ranked upvotes make the greatest difference of all!
My next job is to figure out if there is a way to calculate how many higher-ranked upvotes are needed to get to the next reputation score. The experiment is ongoing and the result should hopefully come soon! :)
yeah super interesting!! yeah I should start commenting a lot more. If only we didn't have jobs to go to and could spend all day on steemit haha :)
That would be really interesting to see :) I unfortunately dont have such a mathematical brain like you so I would love to see it if you manage to conclude your experiment!!
You should definitely spend some time with comments and be sure to leave comments on posts of some of the more philanthropic writers like trevonjb, craig-grant, aggroed, acidyo, allasyummyfood - all amazing content creators who love to reward great comments! But I know exactly what you mean - not enough hours in the day to spend on Steemit because of our day jobs!
There are a lot of awesome tools being built by some super smart people in the community, which helps a ton with determining things like voting percentage, weight, etc. That's what I'm using right now and hoping that my math leads me in the right direction. If everyone on here can benefit from my little experiment, I'll be as happy as a clam! :)
Why wouldn't everyone upvote the positive comments on their post... esp. if you know they Resteemed ... Seems like a decent thing to do... Just sayin.. ; )