I've only been here a short while but I am already noticing a posting pattern among blogs. It seems that those who have a higher reputation will congregate to the posts who's author also has a high reputation. I rarely see high rep people post on little minnow posts. Now I understand little minnow post shouldn't be receiving tons and tons of attention and lots and lots of posts from higher ups but I figured I would have see a few here and there by now (well much more than I have). It's kinda like they are going out of there way not to post on the little minnow posts. Why?
Which leads me to this question. Now as I said above I'm new and don't understand the mechanics fully yet but are these high rep people afraid of losing rep by posting on little minnow posts? Will the little minnow post's suck the wind from higher up's sails if they post to much on lesser rated authors? Will the little minnows drag them down if they show their face in our shallow pools? If the higher ups show up on smaller posts do they "give" some of their rep to the little minnow?
Thanks in advance to anyone that would like to school us on how this works, I understand in having to work hard to get a good rep but I hope there's not a mechanic in place that makes higher ups want to avoid the lesser content by fear of losing their own rep.
Cherryleaf