It's not about having reputation on Hive. People are lazy to vote good posts. Most of the time it is lazy voting. I can show you so many posts on Hive that doesn't deserve big rewards but still happening. If there is proper way to channel the votes and rewards Hive would be great. But i dont think that's easy. At least manual curation helps a little bit but people don't delegate for manual curation efforts.
RE: Some tips to grow on Hive