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Well if this the reputation number is actually causing this popularity mentality when checking posts. Wouldn't it be smart to not show the reputation of a person before someone actually clicks on the post or visit the person's profile?

The game changer would be that someone has to click on the post first, which means they will also get to see more of the content of the post and they already made the click anyways to get there.

Thats not a bad idea.