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What is the purpose of voting up or down on? I'm not clear what voting is suposed to achieve?

I never vote up or down on here in the same manner that I never click Like on any social media sites either, I don't see what the intent behind it is.

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[โ€“] Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It appears the bug is a "turn the server off and on again" issue - it can temporarily be fixed by a restart.

For the default sorts (hot and active), the algorithm for voting is a logarithmic scale, the first 10 votes have more pull than the next 100 votes. Of course this takes the life of the post into account as well - older posts are ranked lower unless sorted by sorts that shouldn't take time into account.

You can see how votes should affect posts here:

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

As to how kbin sorts stuff I'm not sure, but I'm sure they have something similar for sorts.