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PSA: Upvote is not an upvote like you are used to (like Reddit) - "Boost" is the Reddit Upvote (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by HamSwagwich@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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Like the title says, if you want to upvote something on KBin, you should use the Boost link, not the upvote button (Why? Don't know...)

The upvote button doesn't seem to do much, but Boost accomplishes what Reddit's upvote did. So if you're looking to encourage a post, use the Boost link.

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[-] dannekrose@kilioa.org 13 points 1 year ago

@HamSwagwich

This is a result of the original design. Kbin, up until just before the peak traffic hit, was using boosts as upvotes and favorites/likes were just below the post/thread (where boost sits now). Lemmy does it the way it is now (likes = upvotes) so Ernest changed it to match Lemmy behavior. But just as he changed it, he hadn’t changed the calculation for reputation to match when the server nearly melted down and he has to spend all his time just trying to keep the site alive by himself.

[-] garrettw87@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

I see you’re on a different Kbin instance. Was this intended to be a threaded reply, out of curiosity? Because it shows up as a top-level comment on the post for me.

[-] Awwab@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

He using an optional feature that lets you auto populate your reply box with the OPs username.

[-] garrettw87@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, but my bigger point is that it’s not threaded as a reply to one of that user’s comments.

Edit: Oops, nevermind. I saw their comments elsewhere down here but didn’t realize they were OP. Just one of the interface things on Kbin that needs improvement.

Edit 2: I need to figure out how to do strikethrough text on here

[-] artillect@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

You can do strikethrough text ~~like this~~

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

I'm viewing this from KBin and I don't see strikethrough.

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

That's because I put that in a code block with backticks (`), here's what it looks like normally ~~testing~~

[-] LinusWorks4Mo@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

~~like this?~~

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