Steem reputation system has been 'broke' for a long time. Reputation grows as a publisher gets votes from accounts with a higher reputation than them. Because of this, bidbot use enabled you to grow your rep faster than the non bot user. An account less than a year old with a rep of 65+ for sure smells like a bidbot user. It's kinda a bummer because I didn't buy my rep, but celebrating rep milestones didn't happen with me because reputation scores were not trusted.
Steem reputation had such a bad stigma steemUA was created to try overcome the problem....I dont see or hear much about that these days
Now #newsteem has a hold, bidbot use is down. I just seen a post from 
Should we be able to rely on steem reps more under HF21/22 than we could under the previous system?
Or
Is the steem reputation fundamently flawed and how can we solve that problem?