Assalamualaikum friends. Hope all of you are very healthy by God's grace .Alhamdulillah, I am also well today. It's the last day of the second week of engagement challenge S-11 and I am very excited for this week engagement challenge. The SteemitCryptoAcademy Community has given a beautiful topic for this week and that is (ENG/ESP) Steemit Crypto Academy Contest / S11W2 : Reputation on Steem Blockchain || Reputación en Steem Blockchain. It's an amazing and informative contest & I am very happy to be part of this contest.Today I am here to share my opinion with you all about the reputation on steem blockchain . Friends I hope all of you will like and enjoy reading my article. So friends without delay let's start.

What is reputation? Explain.

Reputation in our real life is a person's ability, skill, good behavior, always standing by and helping people. But reputation on the steemi blockchain is a bit different and we primarily judge it by looking at its level numberIt's just a number, but that doesn't mean it's worthless. It has some value on this platform. So through this level we are considered to be a person of merit and reputation through his activeness, efficiency, trustworthiness, good communication with everyone, and his proof of brain on this platform.When a user maintains these, he gains fame through everyone's support.

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By that I don't mean that a low level user has no reputation. They also have reputation but they have to wait to earn that reputation and for that they have to have the activeness, efficiency, trustworthiness and his proof of brain and after that we will earn our reputation by receiving support everyone from this platform.

What is your reputation? Explain step by step how reputation is determined, show screenshots.

When I first joined Steemit and created my account my reputation was 25. And whoever makes a new account on this platform, their reputation starts from the same and gradually increases. Alhamdulillah, currently my reputation has crossed 73. It is presented as a result of my activeness and effort on this platform. Earning a reputation requires proactivity, skill, talent sharing and proof of brains, and as a result we gain reputation through support.

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If you look at the right side of my Steemit account profile name you will see that my reputation is showing 73. And if we go to steemworld.org to see my reputation more precisely, we can see my exact reputation and here my reputation is showing 73.717 and I think at least 300 to 350$ votes are needed to touch this reputation 74. I noticed that it now takes at least 1$ of votes to increase my reputation by one point. A point increase in the future may require a higher amount of votes Anyway Alhamdulillah, I am very happy with my current reputation and I want to increase my reputation gradually.

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What methods do you currently use to increase your reputation? Explain.

The way to increase your reputation on Steemit platform is to receive more upvotes and more amount of upvotes from other users and to receive these upvotes I maintain the following things.

• I am active on this platform to increase my reputation and post quality articles daily so that I get support with huge amount of upvotes and in return I increase my reputation.

• Besides regular posts on the platform I try to make quality comments and currently quality comments are also supported, through which I am building my reputation.

• I try to maintain good relations with all users and give regular upvotes and encouragement to them so that they also encourage me through support and also I have delegation to different communities through which I get a support from that community which helps in increasing my reputation.

• Besides, I work according to the rules given by Steemit and I am in the highest club 100 among the three clubs given by them and in return I get the highest value support from steem curator 03 to 08 account which takes me a step forward in increasing my reputation.

• I always participate in various projects of Steemit team like engagement challenge because from here I get big account support as a reward which helps to increase my reputation fast.

Finally I want to say that, reputation growth will happen when you share quality posts with educational messages, your hard work is noticed, you cooperate, respect and build a good relationship with other users. So you must be honest and diligent to gain reputation.

Can your reputation score go down? Explain.

Of course my reputation can go down and it can happen for many reasons. Steemit platform is a decentralized platform where users are supported in exchange for their proof of brain. And so our reputation increases through positive support. And in the same way, if someone does illegal work here, he is given a down vote in return and as a result his reputation may go down.

Many times we see that some bad people create new accounts and try to give people tempting offers and then we mark them as scammers and downgrade them so that everyone knows that they are fake and many of them can be affected.

Just as upvotes have 100% power, downvotes also have 100% power, but we often use downvotes for scammers. Besides, we use it in certain fields. Downvotes are not used much but are important. So downvote plays an effective role in removing all abusers from this platform as a last resort.

This is an amazing and very informative contest for us and I am very happy to participated.I hope you all read and enjoyed my article. For this contest I would like to invite my friends @solaymann @waterjoe , @pelon53, @msharif & @goodybest for this nice contest .

Best Regards
@enamul17

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