As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin
As for now, upvotes, downvotes and boosts are public on kbin
On every thread or post, if you click on more and activity, you'll get the info.
I personally find this to be a good things, I've seen people using downvote way too easily. I like the idea that we need to be somehow accountable for those mechanism.
edit: It could be somehow improved to have an option to let this info only available between concerned users.
edit edit: I think that up/downvote info shouldn't be public, but kept private between the users involved. we need to address this privacy issue.
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Oof. It feels like every new social media platform insists on replicating the mistakes of their predecessors. You'd think by now there would be an established body of design patterns for social media. This looks like it might be relevant, even though it's quite old now.
edit: it's also interesting that only downvotes count for "reputation points", so anyone who raises their heads above the parapet in a contentious thread is at risk of instantly having a negative reputation [edit 2: QED]. I have no idea what effect that will have though...
kbin does let you hide your own followings and magazine subscriptions, so my guess is it wouldn't be hard to implement hiding your up/downvotes. Ernest the developer is almost certainly more concerned with handling site traffic and stability first, but you could always add an Issue to the bug tracker.
I read on here somewhere a day ago that boosts count positively to your reputation.
the reputation point mechanism is broken right now. https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/80
Hypothesis confirmed by experiment. Enjoy the boost.
So basically a boost acts like a "super-upvote" (in addition to acting like a share). Man, this is going to be interesting.
EDIT: See replies below for more details.
Is this how boost is intended or just part of the broken system while things get under control?
I know like on mastodon, boost is basically retooting. Would me boosting something show somewhere on my profile? I guess I can look at your profile after this and see if the boost shows up on yours lol.
in kbin, boosts and upvotes are like boosts and favorites in mastodon/calckey. but in here, boosts also ranking up the thread in the top category.
the reputation point is broken tho, because the mechanism behind boost and upvote have been modified/switched a few days ago, but the reputation point code not updated yet.
New to kbin and don't use Mastodon yet. If a boost is a super-upvote, why wouldn't you boost everything when you voted it up?
Edit: found the FAQ: boosts are sent to followers in timeline/feed.
boosts are like retweet. it improves the visibility of a thread. it's like sharing it with all your followers + promoting it to the top category.
I boost content that I want to be seen. I upvote content as a kind gesture for the author. I downvote content that is really not appropriate but just not enough to be reported.
I managed to garner a negative reputation score through one satirical link. I am not motivated to post more at this point honestly.
go check my profile, it will make you feel better 🤣