Inconsistent reputation based on API call

A few users have mentioned issues with their reputation on Hive.blog. For example @glimpsytips reports 52 on Ecency and Peakd, but 5 on Hive.blog. Further research shows the API call is returning the inaccurate Reputation.

This is similar to the issue I noticed when reputation was disabled on Hivemind a while ago, certain things like the profile page would show one reputation but comments and posts would show another.

In this case, the user was flagged for testing notifications and his rep shows -2.

If you go to his profile, it shows 48 (on peakd).

But if you go to Hive.blog, it shows he is -3 rep.

Being below 10 rep disables features like image hosting and notification and disrupts UX it is also stressful for new users.