His bot posts attracted negative attention from whales over time and only small amounts of positive attention from normal users.
To prevent the system from being arbitrary we need to have an algorithm that rates everyone "objectively".
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Hi @dantheman,
You downvoted my first test post and it is the only negative vote that i have. Due to i still haven't written any complete post my score is -5 :(
Please, can you remove the negative vote? I think that people will have a bad idea of me due to the bad ranking and only for 1 negative vote.
The post is https://steemit.com/test/@spaninv/first-post
@dantheman The situation is worst that what i thought.
I CAN'T UPVOTE NEW POSTS DUE TO THE NEGATIVE REPUTATION SCORING!!!!
When i try it says
Transaction failed: voter->reputation >= 0:
Can you explain it please?
This is an inadvertent bug with the website that will be fixed shortly within the hour.
@dantheman have a capability to down votes (-13), I had (7) , he thought I was a bot , strike me to (-6)
Figure that out!!!
I was honestly just as suprised by that as you were. We investigated the issue and it works like this.
My upvote can take you to +6.x. You had 6 before I voted you down and 7 after I voted you up.
If you start with 6.1 and I downvote you with 6.9 then it will take you to -6 because the way log algorithms work. If I downvote you again it probably wouldn't take you to -7.
Whales can make / break small accounts that have no rep. But they cannot make accounts with rep. I doubt I could lower @stellabelle from 9 to 8 with a single vote.
Reputation is hard to earn, easy to lose.
I think is not fair. The reputation score should be 1 person = 1 vote.
Otherwise a whale could ban and forbide to upvote to any user he\she wants.
@spaninv
That amount is the balance power they return back to you, same as me.
You did not pick up the jackpot
It's Great you are implementing this , Should help people out when searching accounts , I think some whales have realised that Wang is doing a positive impact on the steemit community but it does not seem like it .
Does the new reputation system discourage bots? I thought my bot @twitterbot was atleast somewhat useful. (by the looks of replies, others seem to think so too) But on the most recent post it got 14 downvotes - jumping directly from +5 and landing at a whopping -6 reputation. Now none of it's past posts are showing up anywhere.