There's an important distinction here: the score of your peers versus the score of your government/authority.

It's possible your peers love you while your government hates you. Maybe you do great work, but are a pain to the power structure. In that case, you end up with high peer ratings, low "political office" ratings.

If the goal is "orderly citizens," then the political ratings become more viral (as in, the people you associate with get boosted or discounted based on your Official Political Office Rating) and try to reinforce people conform to how The Political Office wishes people would behave.

We can even make this local to HN. HN has secret "political rankings" on accounts to restrict the reach of people the "HN establishment" doesn't like (HI DANG), but the public vote counts are more peer-oriented rankings (which still aren't perfect because HN has 3 to 5 distinct sub-cultures fighting against each other, so a +100 from the "VCs are evil bastards" subculture in the morning gets canceled out in the afternoon once SF wakes up and you get -200 from the "VCs are genius darlings and we should all kiss their feet" subculture).