Reputation is directly related to the rewards an account has gained through upvotes and/or lost by being flagged. Even a very high reputation can be brought to negative values if enough high staked flags are brought against them.
Such flagging is normally done to counter spammers, etc.. One technique of such spammers/gamers of the system is to follow as many accounts as possible. There is a natural human trait which tends to be if soneone follows you then many folks will follow back. However with a little investigation, as you have done, there is no way that anyone can make any sense of their feed with 14k of followers to curate. Such large amount of accounts being followed should be a red flag as to the credability of the account.
Hope that may clear up a few of your questions.
P.S. The picture looks like a still for making alcohol to me; yet perhaps that is more a statement to my wasted youth.
Thank You once more! Now I will have to re-scan the 'followers', that I followed in turn.
Yesterday and today were the first days on a bicycle again. After some years of not having pedaled a bike. I feel it. 20 is such a long time ago...
A still would be nice. Or a gravity impeller. When I made it, I had just realized that black and white are not the shades of greatest contrast. Somebody once created a blue and red something with real high contrast. It hurt to look at it. Impossible to focus. As blurry as it comes. So, I decided to take it a few notches down, but maintain the red/blue contrast. Life is high contrast nowadays. Paired with a halo of energy.
Biking is, somewhat, a passion of mine. Glad to hear you're back in the saddle. 😎
You may be interested in my modest biking series. A link is included below for your viewing plessure.
http://trollkeep.com/steem/nnsbt.html
I could tell You about being back in the saddle. Imagine the following: to where I need to go, it is about four kilometers. About three to the closest Mercado to me. So, first I ride the four kilometers to my veterinary. There is a supermarket of the same brand close to the veterinarian, but I decide to ride to the one closer to home. I started shopping and it ended when the bread that I buy was out. I rode back to the super mercado close to my veterinarian when it started to rain. "Whatever", I thought, because I needed bread and a few other groceries. All is well, even though they try to over charge me for the salami. Instead of UYU 76.00, I was supposed to pay UYU 760.00.
Since I did not have enough cash to cover the 760 plus, I said "That doesn't work." To which she responded "Yeah, I know. It's the salami. We'll take care of that."
Yesterday morning I wanted to have a nice breakfast with the bread I had bought. Unfortunately, the thing was severely molded. No breakfast with that bread. Therefore I had to do pretty much the same exercise yesterday as I did the day before. After not having been in the saddle for years. And I do like a more comfortable saddle for sure. :-)
Don't get discouraged. The pain will pass! 😆