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)

  • TThor@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    You have to try hard to get negative karma in a sub, or just never use it. Frankly, if a person frequents a sub and consistent say things majority of people dislike, is that person really right for that sub?

    • btaf45@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      You have to try hard to get negative karma in a sub

      You can get -60 karma on conspiracy sub for saying that witches aren’t real therefore John Podesta doesn’t practice witchcraft.

      Also having that negative karma feature on any political sub amounts to a total ban on all politically incorrect opinions. If most people on a political sub are for candidate A, you will never be allowed to share your support for candidate B. Making it wrongly seem like candidate B has 0% support and candidate A has 100% support.