If you go onto your user profile page, and scroll all the way to the right, there is a section called “reputation”.

What is it, and how does it work?

Is it like the “karma” system that Reddit uses?

  • Shortcake@kbin.social
    10·
    2 年前

    Kinda like karma, it’s the culmination of downvotes (reduces) and boosts. Much easier to get downvotes than boosts though. Idk why the upvotes (favorites) don’t count. Maybe that will be a change soon

    • cyberfae@kbin.social
      10·
      2 年前

      Right now the thing with boosts is unintended behavior, the only reason that it’s not getting fixed yet is there are a lot more urgent things to be done, like preventing the servers from crashing and burning under the new load. Also please consider buying ernest a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

    • trichoserious@readit.buzz
      4·
      2 年前

      Yeah… I’ve taken to self boosting just to keep my reputation above zero even though I’m like 100 upvotes to 2 downvotes. Probably doesn’t matter but like… having negative rep really bugged me.

    • techno156@kbin.socialOP
      3·
      2 年前

      Oh, good to know, thanks!

      Definitely weird that upvotes don’t get factored in, though. I would have expected them to count, rather than the boost (which I thought was a pay-to-promote system like Tumblr’s blaze).

  • polaroid@kbin.social
    5·
    2 年前

    I get no boosts, mostly upvotes, but it only shows my one downvote ;p Help, I’m being attacked!

    It does seem like a minimal issue compared to the rest. Hopefully it’ll be tweaked soon enough!

  • FLOSSeveryday@kbin.social
    3·
    2 年前

    @techno156 I’m glad you asked this. I wasn’t sure how this worked either. Good to know it’s boosts and downvotes. I wonder what the logic was behind that. I guess receiving a boost is a stronger indication of quality content, but I dont feel that upvotes should be ignored in that calculation

    • vaguerant@kbin.social
      3·
      2 年前

      I saw in another comment that it’s because of a last minute change for Lemmy compatibility. Apparently, /kbin originally used boosts as its upvote system, but this was changed so that kbin/Lemmy would communicate upvotes in the same way. Some of the /kbin interface is still set up to use boosts instead of upvotes. Since it doesn’t break anything other than hearts fixing it is probably a low priority for now.

  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
    3·
    2 年前

    Yeah kinda annoyed at how it’s boosts minus downvotes, not upvotes minus downvotes, which I think just about everyone expects it to be.