• Rhaedas@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      I’m not sure why this wasn’t the approach. Why would you not want a boost, whatever it really does, when you upvote something? Or vise versa, boost but not upvote? It seems they both have similar or the same objectives, so just make the upvote button (that everyone uses for some positive reason) do it all.

      I’m in favor of removing a visible number for reputation/votes and put in a vague ranking system like lots of forums had/have that only shows how active a person is in delivering discussion that’s appreciated. Remove downvote effects and just have them a visual on the posts themselves.

    • brilokuloj@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      I would hate this personally. (tho you can take that with a grain of salt, I’m not “from” fedi and I’m still getting used to that voters on a post are viewable at all.) I don’t always upvote things because I love them enough to share, sometimes it’s just like a pat on the back

      • Balssh@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        Fair, but AFAIK upvotes right now don’t do much right? I’m still getting used to fediverse’s ways ( ˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ )

        • elscallr@kbin.social
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          2 years ago

          Pretty sure they serve the same purpose they do on reddit. In a feed on a Lemmy/kbin instance they control the ranking/order of posts and comments.

          However I don’t think they change reputation/karma at all.

          • Pamasich@kbin.social
            2·
            2 years ago

            It’s the other way around.

            At least for the top sorting order, boost seems to be all that matters.

            Reputation uses the formula upvotes - downvotes + 2*boost iirc.