It's an achievement, but I wish rep did not take account of bot votes. There accounts higher than this that have practically no community support. The algorithm could be changed to ignore repeated votes. I wouldn't mind if that reduced my rep, but then I didn't buy it. I have not bought many votes. I just post and comment a lot. It took a year to get from 70 to 71 and about 9 months to 72, but I can wait.
Please excuse me if I do not vote on this, but I think it's got plenty of rewards as it is.
I understand your opinion of too many rewards on this post. Most of them are from me using bid bots. As much as I appreciate upvotes they are never really deserved.
I also wish bot votes were somehow detached from rep and trending page.
I do hope they change this system. Hate the game not the player.
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At least your posts have some value and engagement. I just choose to not buy many votes or self vote. I have used the Steem Monsters votes for DEC scheme to justify playing the game. That's just the odd dollar. I'm happy enough with what I make.
The new bots that take Tokens (or soon SMTs) are great, in those cases, it is up for the community to decide. With Steem it is the main coin and I imagine they will slowly change it so the only real way to make money off it is staking/inflation.