BAD SIDE OF STEEMIT NEGATIVE REPUTATION?
The Dark Side of Steemit - Users with Negative Reputation
Yesterday I did a brief analysis of who the whales are and how to become one. I also mentioned at the beginning that I did research on the lowest rated users as well; I took a sample of 25 of the lowest reputation users on this platform.
How Reputation Gets Lowered
The opposite of an upvote is flagging, accounts can get flagged for various reasons like plagiarism, and once your flagged the reputation is lowered. Not everyone's flagging will affect an author if a whale flags your post your reputation will probably drop to 0 or lower. The more you get flagged, the lower the reputation goes.
What is the Lowest Possible Reputation?
So, the reputation of a user can drop to as low as -25, although there has never been anyone to drop that low as of yet! Some of these guys have gotten this low due to flagging wars with whales, but most of them are for shocking reasons.
I will briefly list the general things that will get you flagged by users:
⏺Posting copyrighted material
⏺Plagiarism
⏺Spam posts
⏺Using bots to follow thousands of people
⏺Harassing/bullying other users
⏺Misleading tags
⏺Misleading Titles
⏺The 25 Rebels of Steemit
Now, we know how reputation can be tainted and lost, these are the 25 accounts I examined to have the lowest reputation.
