Comment by Devi@kbin.social on How does reputation work on KBin?

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

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.

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

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.

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

That’s just silly.

You shouldn’t be able to give yourself points.

I mean, in Reddit all your posts and comments are auto-upvoted.

If you click on “more” you can also see everyone who up/downvoted and boosted a comment/post. So seeing that you upvoted/boosted yourself might be frowned upon by some. But who cares

Or it should default to always self boosting (similar to reddit)

It’s just bugged atm.

Yeah it’s broken atm.

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

It will change. It wasn’t intentional.

Oh thats a relief. It’s silly but I love me some internet points

here’s a golden rodent award for your internet trophy cabinet ✨🐹✨

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.

I thought kbin and Lemmy do federate down votes, but this isn’t included in the wider fediverse protocol, yet …but I might be wrong?

I’m not sure if Lemmy federates downvotes. ernest has said that kbin doesn’t, though. Maybe that’s changed since he made that statement.

AFAIK, though, there’s no need for changes to ActivityPub. It has everything it needs to propagate ‘actions’, which can be defined however a platform chooses. Other platforms just need to know how to interpret those actions in order to do anything with them, and I don’t see sites that aren’t aping Reddit’s engagement model to care about downvotes in any way.

Upon review you are probably right - there is quite a lot of discussion about it here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/3

I hope the boost and upvote list don’t get messed up. I’ve been using boost for things I want to comeback later on top of things I want more visibility on. I’d hate to lose that and have to manually sort them.

@Devi @Hondolor

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

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

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