Does reputation matter when it comes to upvotes or not? It took me a couple of weeks to understand how my reputation affects my upvotes.
First of all, what is your reputation on Steem? Your reputation on Steem is the small number next to your Steemit username!
You find that number when you click on your posts and take a look at below the title where you see the spot that I marked for you in the picture below.
You can also see your reputation on your blog page which is always Steemit.com/@YourUsername but to see that, you need to install the app "Steemit more Info" which offers even more than just displaying your reputation.
That app also shows you who voted for you, who you voted or both and same for your mentions. It also displays the current worth of your upvote and the worth of the upvotes that you received on your post a blog history & more!
I highly recommend installing "Steemit More Info" which you can download here: Steemit More Info.
Below is a screenshot of the blog page of my friend @Snook displaying some of the features of "Steemit More Info" which I mentioned above (See how she posts every day!).
To increase your reputation you have to receive upvotes, the higher the upvotes on your posts are the faster your reputation will climb. The higher your reputation is the higher the upvotes need to be to reach a higher reputation!
To increase your reputation as fast as possible you have to create very high-quality posts and boost them with bots immediately after you have published them.
Using bots to boost low-quality trash posts will get you a lot of enemies & hopefully you feel guilty about it!
With bots, you can boost your hopefully high-quality posts into trending and even make a good profit out of that investment.
You make more cash, get more followers and hopefully, the big guys here on Steem don't hate you for boosting that post, it is the highest priority to only boost the best posts otherwise the gods of cash will punish you for that.
I will write a post on how to use bots in the future, writing about that subject here would distract from the topic, till then you can educate yourself here with the help of @JerryBanfield his post about bots: Boosting Posts With Bots
You can only see your reputation increase by 1,2,3 and so forth but not by 0,1 or 0,5. Luckily a smart man called 
Short answer: No. Long answer: Reputation does not really much because the option to boost your hopefully nice butt into Steem Olympia exists.
Reputation reflects how much cash in the form of upvotes you have received and because of the boosting option that number does not reflect your efforts that much.
There are people out there with reputations 60-70 who produce worst kind of content that I have ever seen. They post a picture with 1 sentence below it and call that a "post".
Since I have reputation 60 I also don't see an increase in the worth of upvotes that I receive. It really depends on the quality of your posts & the information it.
My bests posts in terms of upvotes are about subjects that are helpful for Steemians, perfectly formatted and about subjects that almost nobody covered.
Take a look at this post of @TheRightSideOfUp Click here to open it which received $20.
Now you say to yourself that it ain't much but for a guy that joined Steemit last month it really is. That man has written about a topic that almost nobody writes about (His war experience) which is described in good detail.
He has written 1600 words, wrote about a rare but highly interesting topic which is useful to almost everyone who has served in the army because he also offers advice in his post. That seems to be the winning formula!
Reputation does not matter much. What matters is the information you deliver, what you write about, and how often it was already covered, of course, there are other things that are important as well but in my experience, your reputation plays no important role in that.
There are plenty authors with high reputations that only post shit. Don't be one of those guys and girls.
That's it for today's Steem School episode. Have a nice day ladies, gentlemen & savages!
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