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?
It’s the culmination of downvotes (reduces) and boosts. Much easier to get downvotes than boosts though. Idk why the upvotes (favorites) don’t count. Maybe that will be a change soon
That seems very one sided, and like it’s easy to get fake rep by just posting to a boost mag and having everyone boost you. Most people besides content creators seems like they well end up in the red, I mean are many people boosting comments? probably not, more boost are going to go to content creator which rewarding content creators is good, but in theory if they are making good content that should be rewarded with interaction and new views, not by making it so it’s hard for people that are more commenters (which you also need for a functioning website) to be seen as positive.
also guess that means for now I am gonna focus on boosting content I like.
Yes, it definitely needs to be changed. After the boost <-> fav switch, this indicator doesn’t make sense anymore.
Ah fantastic to hear from the boss, thanks for all the hard work, loving kbin so far!!
Will this be counted retroactively when done?
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.
Originally, upvote on kbin were actually boosts. This was changed to act as favourites, which is how Lemmy treats them, after the community fed back, but that change was not propogated to the reputation system.