If I recall reading correctly, downvotes affect karma, but upvotes don’t.

In case kbin introduces some kind of gamification rewarding system, isn’t that counterintuitive, esoecially since both buttons are equally positioned?

    • adonis@kbin.socialOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      yeah, but the boost buttin is olaced elsewhere and not at the same level as the downvote button… and people usually click one of these two

      • Ferk@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Honestly, they should put the downvote next to the boost and renamed to something more meaningful if it’s not the opposite of an upvote. Everyone is bound to eventually get some amount of upvotes/downvotes, but boosts are not something given as easily (some people might not wanna use boosts at all!).

        Then if something opposite to the upvote is wanted, add a different method. So we’ll have upvote/downvote with no (or little) effect on reputation, and then something like boost/penalize.

        The way it is now it kind of discourages participation in any popular topic if your opinion can be polarizing (even if it’s totally respectful and valid) or if there’s a significan minority of people who dislike what you said (even if most people upvoted it). Your reputation will be penalized, even when you are being polite, citing valid sources and your vote balance is still positive.

        • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          Technically, it’s supposed to be upvotes-downvotes, but boost and upvote used to be the same thing. The boost function is the older of the two, so when they got split, the new thing became upvotes, but the reputation system wasn’t updated. That’s what I understood from other comments elsewhere anyway.

        • curiosityLynx@kbin.social
          3·
          1 year ago

          Boosting is essentially retweeting. On Kbin that means it appears as a toot in your microblog. If you have people following you, boosting your post so they see it makes sense. In Reddit terms, it’s like one-click crossposting to your profile/personal user subreddit.