Number next to my account name?

in #steemit7 years ago (edited)

So im very new here, under a week. I've read its some kind of reputation? I know it was 25 when i first started a few days ago but i just looked and it's down to 18?! That doesn't seem so good :/ what actually causes that number to go down in value? And how can I raise it back up? Thank you in advance

Edit: just also noticed every single post ive done in the past few days are all hidden "due to low ratings" even though some have upvotes on them. An Account Named Digital News downvoted every single post I made.

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It's reputation score and was temporarily lowered due to a scammer baby-man downvoting you for some reason.

Thanks for the reply, yea i figured out that dude was downvoting alot of people on purpose. Not sure why, maybe to wipe out some steemit account and make newer people like me completely hidden. Luckily i have some cool people in the dtube discord that helped me out with some upvotes to get me out of hidden

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