on kbin we have reputation, which is nearly impossible to keep positive, because it counts downvotes but not upvotes. They are working on fixing it though.
From what I’ve gathered, Ernest had been trying to follow general fediverse conventions where possible (boosts and @ at the beginning of mags), but in the meantime Lemmy got popular, so he’s going back to make things more lemmylike. Reputation got caught in the middle.
on kbin we have reputation, which is nearly impossible to keep positive, because it counts downvotes but not upvotes. They are working on fixing it though.
huh.
@arkcom Yeah it’s so odd that they count Boosts instead of Upvotes. Why do we need two??
Boosts are like retweets and Upvotes are like likes. On a threaded discussion format like this, boosts are kind of pointless, so nobody uses them.
From what I’ve gathered, Ernest had been trying to follow general fediverse conventions where possible (boosts and @ at the beginning of mags), but in the meantime Lemmy got popular, so he’s going back to make things more lemmylike. Reputation got caught in the middle.
Thank you! I was wondering why my reputation was negative, I have mostly up votes in my profile
It’s extra annoying, because lemmy people can downvote, but they can’t (as far as I know) boost.
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