You guys all know me as 'soyrosa', but I keep an alt-account, very creatively ;-) called 'altrosa' for all the matters I don't want to bore my followers with. I care about the people that follow me and always assume they follow me for certain types of content. So my work for DaVinci/Utopian (translations of whitepapers and such), or my few attempts at doing a 'steemhunt'? I post them over there.
Now, most of my post earned less than 1$ on @altrosa, but my translation work gets upvoted by @utopian-io, a 3,6 million SP account with a REP of 71. [busy.org seems to round these numbers up, but this is the condenser I used to get the numbers in this post.]
This means: pretty much every upvote I get from them means a huge bump in my REP score.
Here are some stats from both accounts side by side:
Member since: December 2017 REP: 66 286 posts 5541 comments 6104 replies 29329 votes received
Member since: May 2018 REP: 64 44 posts 52 comments 158 replies 2543 votes received
Did you notice I didn't even bother uploading a header image on @altrosa?
So even though I made 7 times more posts, 100 times more comments, received almost 27000 more votes on my 'original' @soyrosa account, the rep of my alt-account is about the same, and the day will come I have an alt-account that has a higher rep than the account I actually travel the whole Steem Universe with.
So to answer @steevc's question: yes, the rep system is broken, even though the crazy high rep on my alt-account was 'gained' by hard work, it's still pretty incredible to see how easy it was to almost surpass the rep of an account I put tons of hours in.
This post was merely crafted for amusement purposes - I wanted to write about the 'race' on REP between both accounts for a while now, and @steevc gave me a reason to write it up. I don't think REP is that important, but it is the first thing we see next to a person's name, so it should say 'something'. Maybe a 'verified' (not-bot, not-spammer, 'proven' good user) symbol next to our names would be a nice replacement.
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