Can someone explain to me how kbins reputation system works?

TooL@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 121 points –

Because currently, it seems like the only thing it's recording are downvotes. Meanwhile upvotes are completely ignored, leading to pretty much every profile I see having a negative reputation.

Also, I have a very fragile ego and my -6 reputation hurts a bit.

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I think it's like for compatability with the microblogging side of the fediverse; so when someone on Mastodon follows you they can see what you've been "retweeting".

Also, you can microblog with your kbin account, so boosting with it actually does something.

So, "boosting" a microblog/post (tweet) will "repost" it into your timeline (so your followers see it)? But what about for threads/comments? Is there any functionality at all for boosting it except to give the user reputation?

As far as I understand it, if you boost a comment, it will also appear in your timeline.

I actually use 'boost' to save a thread or comment since there is not a save option.