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Improved reputation page out. 

tldr: The score measures general awareness and knowledge about the community. It is *not* an engagement metric. 

Long story: Imagine a community to be a city. If you always stick to your neighborhood, you know a lot about it, but jack shit about the rest of the city. You have a low reputation score. Now, walk beyond your known limits, discover another neighborhood and you end up with a better awareness and knowledge about your city. Your reputation increases. 

Engagement only measures activity. Activity can easily be gamed. Activity also doesn't measure how much someone knows about the community. Our reputation score measures if a person has friends in "other corners" of the community.

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sry missed this completely! It's a metric so ofc you can game it if you understand how it's measured. But it's gonna take a lot of effort, that you might just be better off being authentic 😅

Mutual ties: A person's score increases if they talk with people and these people reply. 

In-group talking: If you only talk with people in your little group (eg., your channel), and even if these people reply, your score will not increase. And this is because your knowledge/awareness of what's going in the community isn't increasing. You know a lot about a tiny place. That's ok, but not what we wanted to measure.

Across-group talking: If you talk with people who have strategic position in other groups and these people reply, your score increases. Now, what's a strategic position? It's one that enables efficient flow of information across the whole community. This often includes central people, but they are not enough.

How does it tell the difference between gameable engagement activities and actual friendship & knowledge?

I imagine I know the answer but I'm still interested in the explanation!