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[–] BingGoose@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what's the difference between boosting and hitting the upvote/downvote looking buttons?

[–] Nugget_in_biscuit@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Boost is a kbin upvote, while upvote is a Lemmy upvote. So if you want promote some good content on kbin, you have to use boost

[–] Brkdncr@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This is awful. It’s confusing.

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is from the various services trying to talk to each other in ways they weren't originally designed to do, really. Our "upvote" is a mastodon "favorite" (like) while our "boost" is functionally a retweet/reblog. Kbin tries to bridge the gap between threaded content and microblogging, and it gets about 90% of the way there; all it really needs to do is change it so that upvotes are the ones that contribute to reputation instead of boosts, which are functionally useless outside a fully microblog-style environment.

[–] CurlyMoustache@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just gave you a Boost and a Favourite!

[–] HappySerf@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

And an upvote?!

[–] f_u_reddit_992@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the conversion to Stanley nickels?

[–] DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol, the developer has acknowledged it doesn't make sense at the moment and it will be changed.

[–] Raji_Lev@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Thank goodness for that at least. It can't come soon enough

[–] Kill_joy@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

It is currently broken which is why it functions in such a terrible way. A fix has been made, but not yet pushed to live. Hold tight :)

[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It'll work itself out eventually. Kbin is still super new. Ernest is hard at work every day

[–] Mostly_Harmless@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Brkdncr

There's definitely room for improvement, but I like what I see so far and don't have a problem learning a new paradigm. I'm sure that as the platform matures things will become more consistent.

[–] Brkdncr@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

100% agreed on all points.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kbin is basically still in alpha. They're fixing stuff like this. It'll be fixed soon.

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

From what I can see the upvote / downvote both work as you'd expect now (as in upvoting curates content). There was apparently a period of time where 'boost' was the upvote mechanic but that's been changed

[–] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I've read it's a work in progress and may be changed at some point to be consistent across the Fediverse. Poor guy is slammed with feature requests and bug reports with Kbin.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're like, one week late on that buddy boy

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Calcharger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oh haha my bad you're a dev, thank you for the info!

Sorry I just thought you were a rando haha

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago

@Calcharger Even if I was not a kbin developer, I hope we can all respect each other :)

[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The upvote doesn't represent an upvote on Kbin, so if you get a normal flow of upvotes/downvotes and no boosts, you'll have a negative reputation.

reputation doesn't actually do anything, of course, but it is there.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It only doesn't count as an upvote as far as reputation is concerned, upvotes are still upvotes in determining post ranking.

[–] MadCybertist@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Not on kbin they aren’t. The only thing that drives the ranking currently is boost. I think they are working on fixing that though.

[–] HotDogFingies@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you. I was wondering.

[–] TheDeadGuy@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Boost is like retweeting something, you can have followers in the fediverse. Boosting makes something more visible to everyone, so you upvote/downvote things you personally like/dislike and boost things you think your followers/everyone would like

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