Good day. I am here to submit my idea as a contribution to WordPress.com
i have gone through a few blogs powered by wordpress.com. i have come to note that there is no way to know an authors reputation except you read through their works and words. A screenshot from wordpress.com below

Coming back home to steemit.com, the platform has given a rare opportunity for a newbie or visitor to know the reputation score of an author or blogger. Screenshot below.

It is of great importance to understand that some systems have the regulation behind the reputation score or rating. For example steemit gives reputation based on upvotes. Googleplay gives rating to apps based on popular votes and this is important to guide a new user to know which app to download or not. And this has saved the day for many users.

My Idea

I suggest that wordpress.com should include an Author Rating to the profiles of each author (for example where the red arrow is in the screenshot below:

And this should be determined by:

1. The average number of likes per post of the author or blog.
2. The age of the author's blog i.e. the time the author started blogging.
3. The public rating of the author
   I suggest that there should be a way for the public to rate author's apart from liking there post. This would give the author a feedback on the opinion of the society on his work. Googleplay has a place where you can give a review of the app by adding stars, check the screenshot below

Benefits of Author Rating

• It helps to give a public opinion about a writer.
• It helps researchers or google to know the results to display first when search for a records on a particular topic.
• It helps, encourages and challenges authors to do better and improve on their work.
• WordPress will become far more competitive as authors will put in their best to provide QUALITY information to the public.

THANKYOU