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"Debris field" found near Titanic in search for missing sub, U.S. Coast Guard says
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This complete and utter lack of compassion is something I'd expect to see on Reddit. How unfortunate this mindset seems to have tagged along in the migration. Show some damn humanity.
Agreed, and the fact that the hateful parent comment is still sitting at the top of the thread also makes me concerned for kbin's ranking algorithm.
At the moment it has 28 "upvotes" and 51 "downvotes," which on reddit would have it buried and hidden at the bottom. Here it's remained the top comment since the article was posted.
Possibly because it has three "boosts"? I don't understand the difference between boosts and votes. But this site is going to have to do something about it, because normal people are going to run from this place if this kind of sociopathic content is elevated here.
From what I've read, on kbin boost is upvote, upvote is "favorite", and downvote does nothing but put a number there. At least that's what's happening for now, it may be a bug or will be changed in the future.
I saw one user get heavily downvoted and I looked at their reputation and it was a large negative number. Sure it's just internet points, but it's something I could automatically detect and block with a script someday.
It seems a downvote on a post affects your reputation negatively, while an upvote does not. Boosting a post and/or comment increases your reputation score instead. The scheme is weird. I posted a video a couple days ago that had over a dozen upvotes but 2 downvotes. My reputation score was -2.
I realize they're internet points, but I went ahead and boosted all my comments since kbin doesn't do it automatically yet. My reputation score was in the teens after that. It's a work in progress system, and already known. Apparently a fix is under way.
That explains why so many people have negative reputation on their profile for no apparent reason. It definitely needs to be changed because this current system just disproportionately favors negative rep
for the most part people will take up arrow as upvote and down arrow as downvote, and will never really look past that.