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Question about reputation (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by omnislayer88@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Why am I negative in my reputation? I have not made any posts of comments that are negative (accept for maybe a small one or two but it would have been like 4 to 6 or something). Why am I -46 when I have a highly upvoted thread?

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[–] EnglishMobster@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So until... Friday, I think? Thursday? There was a difference between Kbin and Lemmy. Kbin used "boosts" for upvotes and "reduces" for downvotes, but Lemmy used "Favorites" for upvotes instead.

Kbin literally flipped the switch right before Reddit started coming over here en masse to follow Lemmy's lead and have it be favorites/reduces instead.

The issue is that the reputation code doesn't seem to have been updated (probably because... y'know, the website exploded). So the reputation displayed on your profile counts "boosts" as upvotes still. IIRC sorting algorithms like "Hot" still use boosts instead of favorites too.

So I'm giving you a boost right now - which should give a +1 to your reputation.

This is just a visual bug for now, though, so it'll probably be fixed when things die down. This site has only been live for a month or so, so there's still bugs here and there.

[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take a moment to really drink in that last sentence.

Some dude named Ernest is just tooling around with a social media platform, trying things out, getting the hang of things, just posting into the nothingness for less than a month to test code. Meanwhile, the CEO of a social media conglomerate who doesn't even know who you are opens the lid on Schrodinger's "ideas box" (don't know if it's a good idea or bad idea until you look inside!) and out of nowhere, your little tiny corner of the internet goes from having like 50 people to 250k in a week.

This is like the plot of Fifth Element kind of.

[–] eatmoregreenfood@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

All hail Ernest! He's probably scared stupid right now (I'm so sorry Ernest. I have a name irl that gets made fun of also). But yeah jokes aside buy that man a coffee, donate, help him out. He's living in the game changer world right now

[–] exohuman@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! That makes sense and I now have 1 reputation point, so that worked!

[–] nevernevermore@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here, have another!

[–] auhu@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

upboosts for everyone!

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