I don't think there is actually a ceiling. Reputation is a useless metric though, it is really just the sum of all votes minus downvotes.

Look at some of our top reputation users.

• haejin
• kingscrown
• steamcleaners
• chbartist

Really shows how useless it is.

Replacing rep with something more valuable has always been on the list of things to do in a future hard fork, I hope it is handled soon.

I have been trying to come up with ideas of what can be used as signals, but to be honest you can't trust anything as it is all financially motivated.

For example, the obvious choices are:

• Upvotes
• Downvotes
• Follow
• Reblog

All these are generally untrustworthy due to automatic voting, blind voting, trading.

The last hard fork helped a lot to make voting more organic, but it is still not enough to use as a metric of reputation.

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