What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I’m not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?
I never vote up or down on here in the same manner that I never click Like on any social media sites either, I don’t see what the intent behind it is.
It appears the bug is a “turn the server off and on again” issue - it can temporarily be fixed by a restart.
For the default sorts (hot and active), the algorithm for voting is a logarithmic scale, the first 10 votes have more pull than the next 100 votes. Of course this takes the life of the post into account as well - older posts are ranked lower unless sorted by sorts that shouldn’t take time into account.
You can see how votes should affect posts here:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
As to how kbin sorts stuff I’m not sure, but I’m sure they have something similar for sorts.
