The author rating appeared in the ratings as 5% of the total ratings of all your posts on the site. With this rating, the author participates in the distribution of the likes or your post appears in the hot section, or it appears for users in their feed. The rating can be viewed on your statistics page. 

It became possible to hide already read posts, if you did not see the post in the feed, and opened it, then when you click on the settings icon to hide read posts, you will no longer see it in the feed, your feed and your main feed, but you can still see it on the author's statistics page and the author's page.