The latest implementation of User Rep has been added to SteemIt today and already it's killed off the biggest bot on SteemIt

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@wang is now dead

Well, he's still alive but his reputation isn't

@wang was one of the first user on Steemit to feel the sting of flags. A bot that we've all come to know and love as the welcome bot woke up today to find it had a -8 reputation. The lowest possible rep you can achieve. @wang bot will no longer be seen on posts unless you're following wang. You can check out his cheeky farewell post here. His creator must have a rad sense of humor cause he's made light of the situation. Wang will now be flagged on most posts and his reputation most likely wont recover. Let us take a moment to remember the bot we all came to love. Maybe these bots can go find a job else.

Not all Good Bots will die

Not all bots are bad and can actually help monitor content here on SteemIt

Most of us didn't mind @wang being that he was a friendly bot that gave you articles to read and genuinely made you feel welcomed. My favorite bot is @cheetah A bot that's been monitoring for spam and Copyright. Cheetah's attained a good reputation and could possibly survive the bot apocalypse. The bad bots will not. @isaac.asimova , a bot that posts the same dumb ass comment on every post has without a doubt died too. It's blog page no longer exists.
I imagine the good bots may form an alliance somewhere down the track, the Voltron of Steemit.

Not Just Bots but Spammers Too

This is only the beginning of the purge. Enjoy it. Now we'll be able to hang out with the more genuine users.

You may have heard of the term Catfish. These are users on Steemit that aren't actually who they say they are, pretend to be someone else, just for the fortune and fame. They are some of the biggest Spam scammers here...
Not any more. A lot of these users have already been heavily flagged. Like a post we saw from someone reposting the story of an ex-heroin addict that they had copied from another site, the author can no longer be found. These kind of users are feeling the purge.

Not only Catfish but Spammers as well. People who've been spamming post after post hoping to get a pay out. Most of us have been guilty of this at one point or another, but those who've done it constantly are feeling the wrath of their actions.
A friend I introduced to Steemit hasn't coped well from the upgrades. Already he's against the reputation scheme, understandably so as he's now got a negative rep. He's suggested that this could create a gap between whales and regular users where whales can flag anyone and make them disappear. I disagree but it's a good point worth avoiding in the future. For now though, you'll be fined everytime you make a crap post. Keep this in mind when you post from now on.

Thank You Steemit Development

This upgrade is my favorite thing since first finding the site..

You can click here to check the original post from @dantheman that explains the new numbering system next to your name.

Reputation scores work like earthquake richter scales, they operate on log base 10. In other words a reputation level 8 is 10 times stronger than reputation level 7. Likewise, -8 is 10 times more negative than -7.

Those with weaker reputations are unable to harm the reputation of those with strong reputation.

I posted a sensible rant about people being real with themselves and the Steemit community. This reputation scheme was implemented exactly for that reason. To keep us real. Now we're able to see exactly which authors are worth reading. Thanks Steemit.
This new development will be very beneficial to myself in the near future with the release of an exclusive Steemit Record Label, Thirsty Records, helping us to guage audience appeal.

I'm logging off now to put in work for Thirsty Records, I hope you enjoyed the quick post from a level 7 Steemer.

Stay Real Steemit!

#QualityContent

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