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.
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 is Ernest confirming that it needs to be changed: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/49212/How-does-reputation-work-on-kbin#entry-comment-208018
So wait then it’s way easier to get down votes than upvotes and get a bad reputation?
It’s just bugged atm.
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.
Or it should default to always self boosting (similar to reddit)
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
I hope they remove the reputation display, people farming karma points was stupid.
Up/down votes should be used for post/comment organising and nothing more imo.
