I’m a little confused about how the upvote/downvote system works as related to your reputation on KBin. Can someone explain?

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Upvotes don’t do anything for personal points. Boost gives plus points, downvotes give negative points. If I like a post I upvote and boost it.

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So wait then it’s way easier to get down votes than upvotes and get a bad reputation?

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Yes, but you can boost your own comments to counteract the downvotes. The whole system is sketchy at best and shouldn’t be relied on to determine anything about a user.

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11 points

OH NO! My fake internet points don’t have VALUE?!

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8 points

That’s just silly.

You shouldn’t be able to give yourself points.

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23 points

It’s just bugged atm.

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24 points

Yeah it’s broken atm.

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oof, I don’t like how that is at all. Is this by design or will that change ever?

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It will change. It wasn’t intentional.

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The upvote button on kbin was originally mapped to boosts. People didn’t care for they, and it was incongruent with how Lemmy does it. So, they changed the functionality, but didn’t get around to updating the rest of the reputation system.

That said, kbin doesn’t federated down votes, so the system is going to be weird no matter what.

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@Devi @Hondolor

Are plus/negative points purely for thread/comment ranking?

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Thanks for the clarification, I’ve been wondering about the same thing too.

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