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PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone. (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago by zeste@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a
Is a good feature but it's interesting to see when someone decides to reduce all of your content for no reason.

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[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kbin uses boosts as upvotes for their karma calculation, which is why you see the QI style scoring. Strange system.

[–] Melpomene@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, that I get... it's just not intuitive for users. If downvote = -1 rep, then most people are going to assume that upvote = +1 rep, with boost being something like a "look at this post" option. But maybe that's just me?

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree with you. It doesn't make sense to me. If it was me it would be =If(or(boost=1,upvote=1), karma=karma+1,karma=karma)

[–] ernest@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this is a consequence of recent changes. It has already been fixed on the test instances. The changes will soon be implemented on kbin.social