Why do downvotes affect karma, but upvotes don't? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by adonis@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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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?

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[-] skepickle@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Kbin is under development... Why is the boost being used instead of upvote? I have no idea, but I do suspect a series of events definitely occurred for ernest to end up here. Will it change in the future, who am I to say?

[-] Ferk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I feel it's mainly because of the desire to integrate with Mastodon as well.
He explains a bit about that here: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/3

There's also a ticket about changing how reputation is calculated: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/80

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