Your rep goes up as people vote for your posts or comments. The voting power is tied to your Steem Power. You start out with a tiny bit of steem power delegated to you, worth about a penny. The only way for your vote to count more is to get more steem power. Either from rewards on your post and comments, or you can buy it. I leased some from blocktades. That's why you'll notice my vote is worth alot more now and it wasn't before. I paid for the privilege to have more voting power.


It took me a few weeks of non stop reading on here to figure out how even half of it works. There needs to be a more visible place for all the newbie info. Start digging around for articles others have written on how this all works, dive in and ask questions if the post is less than 7 days old, you'll get good interaction that way. 😀