Summary: The post shows how the reputation score of Steemit user is calculated. The higher the reputation score, the harder to increase. High reputation score of a Steemian correlates his/her popularity on Steemit, and prevent Steemians with lower reputation scores to effectively flag your posts and/or comments. The best way to increase one’s reputation score is by writing quality posts/comments and attracts Steemians with high reputation scores to upvote your posts and/or comments.