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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • and this is the reason I like having reputation points advertised. So you can spot an obvious troll and/or someone who isn’t capable of having a meaningful discussion. It really helps to decide how much effort you put in when conversing with a poster.

    I’ve noticed on Lemmy they don’t have reputation points visible on profiles because they see them as a vanity/populatiry metric. Reputation can be used for far more than just “fake internet points” they can be a great indicator of trolls.







  • I’d like to point out that the upvote/downvote buttons here on kbin don’t behave like you are used to on reddit they are a little different.

    • Up arrow = Upvote on Reddit and Favourite on Kbin - This is very different to reddit
    • Down Arrow = Downvote on Reddit and Reduce on Kbin
    • Boost (at bottom) = On kbin this is the equivalent to a reddit upvote.

    It kinda confused me when I looked at my profile the other day and my reputation was -2

    I’d only made one single post and it had 17 “upvotes” and 2 “downvotes” so the -2 confused me a bit. That’s when I realised the uparrow was not an upvote and didn’t contribute to reputation. I suspect many others don’t understand this either based on the interractions with my other post.

    Edit: To be clear while “fake internet points” are not overly important to me. “Reputation” or similar do give me an indication if I am contributing to a community in a positive and productive manner.

    Seeing -2 made me think “Who have I pissed off?” Till I realised that “Favourites” don’t contribute to reputation.