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Can someone explain to me how kbins reputation system works? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by TooL@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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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.

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[–] albatros@kbin.social 92 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (33 children)

Currently :

"Boost" adds reputation. It's a kind of retweet.
"Downvote" removes reputation
"Upvote" does nothing. (edit : for reputation)

This is because previously the upvote was boost, they were switched around to be similar to other fediverse systems.

Dev mentioned in another thread that the reputation system should be changed to have up/down count instead of boost/down. But they have a lot to do right now so it might not be the most pressing issue...

[–] lwgrs@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Upvote" does nothing

Not exactly - it's technically a "favorite" button. Since I learned exactly what you typed out, I've been using it as a way to save posts I want to read later. However it is correct that it does nothing for reputation.

[–] VerifiablyMrWonka@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It does, AFAIK affect the post ranking i.e. order of posts. So it's got that going for it - which is nice.

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