If it helps, I have a negative reputation at the moment as well and couldn't figure out why. My understanding is:
"downvotes", which are called "reduces" on kbin, contribute negatively to your reputation score.
"upvotes", which called "favorites", do not contribute to your reputation score in either direction.
"boosts", which are similar to Twitter's retweet feature, are what contribute positively to your reputation score. When your comment/post/thread is "boosted" by another user, it shows up in the microblog/mastodon feeds of people following that user.
Maybe someone else more familiar with kbin and the fediverse can correct anything I have wrong.
This system seems inherently flawed, is there a breakdown somewhere why this was the design decision?
If this site acts anything like reddit, people will at a point jump in the downvote train and will be "unfairly" downvoted en masse. If the upvote button next to the downvote doesn't offset that I expect we'll see a lot of negative reputation.
Maybe it's a technical hurdle or something -- and it's not like it's that important anyway -- but kinda seems just strange to me.
There was no design decision. Kbin was not ready for prime time and Ernest has said as much. Everything was slapped together and will take time to sort out.
The reputations system is still a bit messed up and still works like in th earlier days when upvotes were actually boosts. It's probably gonna get changed eventually.
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Hyacathusarullistad@kbin.social · 15 pts · 3y
If it helps, I have a negative reputation at the moment as well and couldn't figure out why. My understanding is:
Maybe someone else more familiar with kbin and the fediverse can correct anything I have wrong.
Prevailing@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
Gave you a boost for that helpful comment. Nobody follows me, but I do what I can.
b00m@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
I shall follow!
GunnarRunnar@kbin.social · 7 pts · 3y
This system seems inherently flawed, is there a breakdown somewhere why this was the design decision?
If this site acts anything like reddit, people will at a point jump in the downvote train and will be "unfairly" downvoted en masse. If the upvote button next to the downvote doesn't offset that I expect we'll see a lot of negative reputation.
Maybe it's a technical hurdle or something -- and it's not like it's that important anyway -- but kinda seems just strange to me.
roofuskit@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
There was no design decision. Kbin was not ready for prime time and Ernest has said as much. Everything was slapped together and will take time to sort out.
asjmcguire@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
Have a boost.
There you go - you are positive again now. :)
roofuskit@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
This is correct, but I would like to add that they have mentioned that this is on the roadmap of fixes they want to implement.
Sabata11792@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
So boosting is useless for most people if they don't care about the microbloging part?
fr0g@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y
The reputations system is still a bit messed up and still works like in th earlier days when upvotes were actually boosts. It's probably gonna get changed eventually.
https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/80
I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
Hehe, here I was stressing about why I'm on -5 after having multiple comments up-voted.
Easy coping strategy for now - think of them as QI scores.
ZILtoid1991@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
It seems like boosts add to your reputation. Supposedly it'll be soon be changed.
roofuskit@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
It's broken right now. They are working on sorting it out.
TL;DR for now upvote is more of a "favorite" hitting a down vote hurts their reputation, boosting helps their reputation.