The reputation system isn't perfect, and it's hard as hell to come up with a good one anywhere, let alone this place where there's a bit of a might-is-right thing that comes from the sybil protection of stake = influence.
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Curious about your use of sybil as what your intent is? "Sybil is the most common spelling of a name which the ancient Greeks used as the generic word for a prophetess--a woman who claimed to be able to interpret the wishes of the gods through their oracles."
Stake = influence which is something of an aspect of might is right and is something that I don't see as a beneficial aspect of Steemit. It's much the problem that's present and dysfunctional currently in the world.
Why have a reputation qualifier in the first place? I had thought it referred to influence with newbies having the lowest. Ideally all would be treated equally; position is very much the ruin of life as high and low only have a only relative viewpoint that is highly impermanent and not worth emphasizing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
Many have tried to solve it, but usually just end up creating more dysfunction. Steem, being a decentralized permissionless blockchain needs a solution for sybil attacks, and that solution is to bring stake (with value) into the equation. If you can think of something better, by all means propose it. It's only slightly less difficult than a perpetual motion machine.
If you're unsure about the reasons for stake in STEEM Power being the measure of influence here, please read the Steem whitepaper. It's outdated in many aspects unfortunately, but it still explains the need for STEEM Power to be the measure of influence in Steem.