Hi Dev! Thank you for the fitting description of our relationship ;-))

As far as reputation is concerned, I'm afraid once again I don't quite agree with you. In real life, reputation is basically the general standing, the image that someone enjoys. If you are honourable and sincere, do good work and manage your affairs reliably, you have a good reputation...

Here, your (or my, or anyone's) reputation has little to do with oneself. The more stake, the more SP the steemians who vote for you have, the faster your reputation rises. Strange algorithm - the number of votes or the number of comments, the resteems or even the word count in a post don't matter at all - not to mention content and quality.

There are very "old" Steemians who still don't scratch the (60) mark, even though they have been active here since the beginning. No, they are not bad bloggers, no, they were not massively downvoted either. No. They just don't get high votes from the sc accounts or hungry mythical creatures.... And they don't use votebots or delegation services: their vote power also helps get a high reputation very quickly.

Sorry - I have to say it so drastically: the reputation here on the Steem means nothing. The number of followers means nothing - they can all have their own special reasons for following you. And those don't even have to lie in your person... The only thing that has a - non-scalable - value is the exchange via the comments. An intensive communication under a post with many, many (40+) comments that contain more than "please, thank you" and smileys - that is a real scale. Whoever writes posts that encourage - best man or woman!