Here's some ways to get it reputation faster:
–Make meaningful thought out comments on popular posts and get upvoted
–Get voted from a whale on one of your posts
–Make more comments, build your community.
–ALWAYS reply to all comments on your posts
–Keep posting quality, consistently. Don't jump from 3 posts a day to 3 a month. Do what you do and stick to it, your followers expect it (subconsciously –If you post daily and stop, your followers will feel let down for example)
–Get into contests. Get into conversations. DO STUFF as another poster mentioned ...