Yes i hear you on the "reputation system"

One of the accounts that i follow has a KE score of SEVENTEEN yes 17. And i was voting this account for years as they were commenting on every post i did.. quite dutifully. They seemed genuine. I upvoted their comments 100% every time as i was new-ish and i LIKED comments. so to test.... i kept REPLYING to the comments and showing engagement and thanks, but stopped UPVOTING the comments... and low and behold the comments stopped suddenly and completely. :-)

Now sometimes i do and sometimes i dont upvote comments on my blog it depends on how much vote power i have left.

i LOVE KE score. but that needs to be blended with some of the newer data. A new score should be born that is KE, recency of post. upvote quality, quality of post somehow and comment engagement some how... Or we just need to create our own system as i know many people have done. I expect that would be the easiest as everyone has different tolerance levels.