In Other News: I've Reached 50 Reputation

Reputation

I've reached 50 reputation!! YAY

YAY!
(I know this gif says birthday girl, but I love using it for celebrating almost anything because it's awesome!)

Reputation

I don't actually know what that means at all or how it actually effects my experience on Steemit. I know how it works and how to get more, but why? What exactly is it used for? Why should I care?

In extreme cases of very high reputation or very low reputation, its fairly easy to understand, but for everyone else, I still don't know why I should really care. I'm new to Steem and I have very few followers and very little engagements in my posts, so I find it odd that having a reputation of 50, which I admit isn't even that high, should mean anything. Since I have very little engagements on my posts, a majority of my reputation gains come from my own use of SBD for post promotion. That doesn't actually means my content is any good at all. I'm hoping that is. I spend at least 2 or more hours on any given post, where I write about my own experiences that take even more time to digest and think about.

Since I can spend SBD on post promotion on Bid-bots and the like, why should anyone take reputation into account at all? Can someone please explain to me why I should care?

Thanks for Reading

Time's a bit tight for me for the next week as I have university exams coming up, so I'm spending today planing my posts for the next week as opposed to spending my usual amount of time writing about My Thoughts on or Why I Love something. Hope that's OK. It is Sunday after all.

Thanks for reading! Let me know why I should care about reputation in the comments below and how you use it to assess Steem users, if you do at all. As I'm constantly saying, I'm very new to Steem and would love to learn about all the different systems. If you want to see any more of my future content be sure to hit that Follow Button. I try to write something every day and I usually write about video games, movies and my journey through Steemit.

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Thanks again and have a lovely day!

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