Reputation is a key factor that reflects how you behave and how the community members evaluate your work. Your journey on Hive starts with a 25 reputation score. This number will change depending on the number of upvotes you receive. Whether it increases or decreases depends only on you. If you find your place on Hive through quality content and comments, you will get a high reputation and a good income. But if there is abuse or plagiarism in your content, the downvotes you receive will undoubtedly cause your reputation to drop.