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

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@albatros

@TooL

Oh that’s incredibly stupid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's just the current state of the software, not the intended state of the software. There's a bug right now, reputation's not supposed to be calculated that way. It'll get fixed, there's just rather a lot of higher-priority stuff in flight at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Just keeping things spinning at this point is taking up most of Ernest's time.

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