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what is this number thing around peoples profile? What does it mean to give a percentage vote?
Also what is this currency stuff around threads? And what's the difference with

Hi! So,

  • the number is reputation. It will get bigger the more upvotes you get, and will go down only if someone with a high reputation gives you downvotes, (which are not common and usually takes several of them for the reputation to be affected) This usually just tells you how active and rewarded as an author a person has been (since an old account with low reputation is not an active author or has not been well rewarded). It's interesting if you see an account with negavite reputation to check if they have abused the blockchain somehow, usually plagiarizing content.
  • Your vote has a value in Hive and Leo as long as you have hive and leo staked. You can buy it or just earn it from the upvotes you get. The value you give comes from a rewards pool, not form your wallet. Your stake gives you power over a part of the reward pool. You have like a life bar to give those uptoves, the higher percentage you vote, the higher the value but the fastest you consume it.

  • The currency number you are seeing is the dollar (or the coin you choose) value of the leo, hive and hbd you have gotten from the uptoves received.