Periodically @papa-pepper notices things and starts to experiment with the possibilities.
Wednesday was one of those times.

We've probably all seen the reputations go up or down as a user interacts, and we know that sometimes whales will "fix" someone's reputation if it got knocked down too far for an illegitimate reason.

But how many times have you seen someone's reputation change because of your vote?

Once I saw that I could "bump up" a newbie from a 25 to a 26, I got a little curious.

In the upcoming video, I'll take the reputation of @bjornbm up from a 25 to a 31, in about 4 minutes.

I've had a little fun over the past few days doing it, and sometimes leave a comment for every step of the way.

Sometimes, people have noticed this:

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@full-measure told me "I recently saw you raise a nice minnow's reputation score from 25 to about 31, single-handedly, after he talked about camping with the crickets. It was impressive, and I immediately clicked to follow."

@full-measure added, "And I like that you were helping the newcomers out, seems like a good use of your influence. Any newcomer who isn't, like, a troll or something is gonna be really misrepresented by the 25 rating, cool to help rush them along."

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Here are a few of the fun conversations that I had about this.

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I know those aren't the best images, so just watch this short video and see it in action.

Dolphin Power in Action!

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Of course this works best with people who have a beginner's rating of 25. Since they have not been moved up or down yet, it is easy to influence their reputation. Therefore, be sure to use this power for good, especially with newcomers.

Since the Reputation System was created to be like the Richter Scale, each number increase is not only in numeric value, but in magnitude. That is why I can't just upvote myself from a 66 to a 70 (a numerical difference of 4) even though I can upvote someone from a 25 to a 31 (a numerical difference of 6).

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I had just never seen this happen before, and thought that maybe you hadn't either.

The first user that I noticed this with was @majes, who just showed up on steemit a few days ago. I experimented, and in 6 minutes he went from a 25 to a 34!

@majes responded by saying, "LOL, Thanks for all the help. I am so new I'm unsure what number means what exactly, but up is good I'm sure :)"

Two days later, @majes (with a reputation of 38) told me, "great, seems it works for me now with folks with only 25 rep. But can't raise it as much as you raised mine.... One day :)"

So even @majes, who's been on steemit for about a week, with a rep of 38 and with only about 11 STEEM worth of Steem Power and an Estimated Account Value of about $7.00 can help raise the reputation of a new user...

What can you do?

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CONCLUSION

There are certainly some fun and entertaining ways to encourage other users, and I think that "upvote assaults" on new users is a great way to help them out. I'd recommend actually checking out there content and reading some of their posts and comments first, because no one want to encourage a new spammer or plagiarizer.

I know that I had some fun, some newcomers got some encouragement, and we even got to follow one another in some cases.

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YOU HAVE POWER!

With great power comes great responsibility

- What will you do?

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THESE IMAGES WERE MADE USING MY STEEMLIFE SEASCAPE SPRAY-PAINT ART AS A BACKGROUND.

THE LINK FOR THAT POST IS HERE

STEEMLIFE SEASCAPE

If anyone wants to use any images of the STEEMLIFE SEASCAPE for your posts, feel free to follow the link and copy the images. Consider it a small gift to the steemit community. I'll also be adding some creatures to it, so stay tuned for future posts.

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