I have a suspicion this is because they recently swapped boosts and upvotes to play nicer with the wider fediverse, but they didn’t update the reputation system to match
I certainly hope that. Right now I do not care that I am deeply into minus reps while having lots of upvotes, but when magazins/communities start to lock out accounts from interacting until they have certain rep, it won’t be as good.
I have a suspicion this is because they recently swapped boosts and upvotes to play nicer with the wider fediverse, but they didn’t update the reputation system to match
I certainly hope that. Right now I do not care that I am deeply into minus reps while having lots of upvotes, but when magazins/communities start to lock out accounts from interacting until they have certain rep, it won’t be as good.
Ernest mentioned it will be changed :
https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/49212/How-does-reputation-work-on-kbin#entry-comment-208018
Hell yes!