I wouldn't be obsessed with number chasing. A philosopher who recently died once told me that the Descartian tendency to reduce everything into single dimension (linearity) is a form of mental disease caused by the inability to think on multiple dimensions. Value is not an extensive magnitude. It has properties better adapted to intensionality. The main use of the reputation score is closer to a boolean variable, but in practice, bot use > 80 > good content > 25 > spammer.