Probably this is not the place to start a conversation like this one (bellow), but I feel intrigued with what many users are doing while posting (I am no saint, but I have learned that it actually hurts the "good" community within STEEM). So here I go...

Reputation (the number) is not something I believe in the Steemit platform anymore. Does not mean that people have or not in fact, a good reputation. But what was, in the beginning, a good simple way to understand the reputation of a Steemit user, now its completely false to assume only that number as comparison/measure point.

Simply put, the ability to buy votes makes that characterization/attribute not true. In my view, reputation should have a different weighed system, not dependent on STEEM POWER VOTING only, but also dependent on peoples opinion (using a normalized score).

Something like steemhunt is doing. But I would even add another component which would be "trended". If a user gets initially lots of votes, and then ONLY downvotes, then it should have negative trending (meaning the overall reputation should decrease). This last method should decrease the appetite for "gaming" the system and inspire good cooperation within the community. The remaining question here (from myself) would be, how you would balance the 3 mechanisms for reputation...

Anyway, just some philosophical thoughts of my own when I read that you were "honoured"!

PS.:
It costs a bit of time, but going through people's comments actually makes me learn a lot about them. =)