Because currently, it seems like the only thing it’s recording are downvotes. Meanwhile upvotes are completely ignored, leading to pretty much every profile I see having a negative reputation.
Also, I have a very fragile ego and my -6 reputation hurts a bit.
Reputation will vary by which instance you’re on because it’s just a calculation of actions people have made, and those counts vary based on who subscribed to whom and when. If you’re on instance B and instance A and C are talking to you, but defederated from each other, you could be +100 when looking from A and -100 when looking from C. So the score will be increasingly meaningless-looking the more you are federated.
Seems like a great reason to remove it entirely.