What is user "reputation"?
What is user "reputation"?
If you go onto your user profile page, and scroll all the way to the right, there is a section called "reputation".
What is it, and how does it work?
Is it like the "karma" system that Reddit uses?
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Kinda like karma, 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
Right now the thing with boosts is unintended behavior, the only reason that it's not getting fixed yet is there are a lot more urgent things to be done, like preventing the servers from crashing and burning under the new load. Also please consider buying ernest a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin
Yeah… I’ve taken to self boosting just to keep my reputation above zero even though I’m like 100 upvotes to 2 downvotes. Probably doesn’t matter but like… having negative rep really bugged me.
Take a couple boosts on me
Free boosts for everyone!
Thank you and everyone else that donated to the karma jar!
This account has been a less active account so less votes and less weird rep damage, but still… that should hopefully be fixed soon. Doesn’t make sense as is.
Oh, good to know, thanks!
Definitely weird that upvotes don't get factored in, though. I would have expected them to count, rather than the boost (which I thought was a pay-to-promote system like Tumblr's blaze).