I've seen it happen quite a few times with the rating system on the Play Store and iOS App Store. Perhaps having some kind of reputation algorithm would be a better way to show an authors rating. Formulating their likes, comments, posts, etc. into an algorithm that dynamically generates an author rating. I personally think that would be a better idea.
Maybe include a rating system as well that has a very minor affect in the algorithm, or no effect at all. That way it would just serve as an additional rating to the algorithmic one.
That's a great idea
Thank you!