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NEW: Update & Clarification on Votes, Boosts, Favorites, and Reputation Points on kbin (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ernest just posted some comments clarifying recent changes to Votes, Boosts, Favorites, and Reputation Points:

Upvotes & Downvotes function akin to Reddit
Boosts count as two Upvotes (link)
Favorites are added to https://kbin.social/fav if you Upvote (link)
Reputation Points have been updated

In addition to that, Ernest stated that "there is no connection between reputation points and sorting algorithms. It's just info in the profile" (link)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yet. Unless prior scores get nuked, it's going to cause a lot of confusion when they do for OGs in the fediverse.

Maybe I'll start a new discussion on this - or join one that's already running once I find it - but the best way to use these three scores seems obvious to me, and needs a standard to be established.

Upvotes/boosts/reduces need to do SOMETHING. I posit a simple structure and reasoning:

Upvotes increase your "reliability" rating. This can be used to establish trust as a person who commits bytes to a federated server.
Downvotes decrease that reliability rating.
Boosts are reposts to your federated identity (mastodon, kbin, lemmy, etc) for visibility to your subscribers.