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.
From what I understand, currently it works like this: boost = +1, downvote = -1, and upvotes do not feed into reputation.
And a boost is… what exactly? I feel like that system is going to lead to pretty much everyone being close to 0 or negative. Especially if downvotes federate between instances, as I don’t believe boost is even an option for lemmy instances is it?
Upvote = I like this thread/post
Boost = everyone following me, here is a thing I think you should see
-ish. That’s my understanding at the moment anyway
@JollyRoberts So it’s the equivalent of a retweet
I don’t know, I will boost your comment and see what happens… I hope it doesn’t open a webcam discussion where we see each others, that would be awkward.
Edit: what is this madness? I see a +1 but with no way to remove it! It’s forever. Be cautious!
Clicking on “boost” again should remove the boost. At least that works for me.
Yeah, currently nothing stops a person from flooding self-boosted low-effort posts to rapidly raise their (apparent) reputation.
A single user can counter that 1-for-1 by downvoting every instance of it happening, but as “reduces” are visible the system gamer can retaliate in kind.
Two users (or one with two burner e-mails) in fact working together can currently destroy any user’s points quite quickly beyond their ability to counter with self-boosts even if they wanted to.
Irrelevant, as reputation doesn’t seem to do anything and we all know the system currently is flawed, but one feels we should not be able to affect our own, nor that of other users past a certain amount.
Yes. In Facebook you could always upvote yourself. I used to always do it when putting the word out about volunteer opportunities where I worked. Not sure if it truly helped but it felt good when the post began with a +2. Not sure if that’s something that still can happen there. I’ve not used FB for much in the past 6 years.
