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How does reputation work on kbin? (kbin.social)

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

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I have only commented so far with only positive reception, all my comments are in the positives and I only have 5 downvote all I am pretty sure coming from the same person on the same thread, yet I have -5 rep, why?

if I add my positive upvotes, likes, whatever and subtract my 5 downvotes I would have 97-5 which is 92, why do only downvotes or negative interaction count but not positive?

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[–] FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's worse than that, since there is no limitation on boosts to your own posts not effecting your reputation, a person can artificially increase their own reputation without the need for anyone else to collaborate on the system gaming by flooding an unused magazine with posts and boosting every one of them.

Conversely, someone with an axe to grind can lower someone's reputation dramatically by going to a person's profile and downvoting everything they have ever posted.

So long as "score" is irrelevant (i.e. can't result in a targeted autoban) it doesn't really matter, but neither thing should be possible.