How does reputation work on kbin?

Killakomodo@kbin.social to /kbin meta@kbin.social – 33 points –

I have only commented so far with only positive reception, all my comments are in the positives and I only have 5 downvote all I am pretty sure coming from the same person on the same thread, yet I have -5 rep, why?

if I add my positive upvotes, likes, whatever and subtract my 5 downvotes I would have 97-5 which is 92, why do only downvotes or negative interaction count but not positive?

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At least we all now know, if you agree with a comment or post and want to show support boosting shows far more support then upvoting so a good rule of thumb now is if you upvote it, you should also boost it, at least for now. I hope this will be changed.

Yes - it is likely down to the lack of a standard. Upvotes are federated out as the same ActivityPub schema as liking something. Boosts are federated out as boosts. So if someone on Mastodon saw your comment for example, liking it - is typically a way to say to the poster "I like this", but when you boost it you want other people to see it - so the sentiment is roughly the same here. Because if your reputation could be increased by someone on a different platform simply liking your comment - that would be fine - but there is no currently available federated ability to downvote - so people would have an artificially high reputation, because only the people on kBin platforms can downvote you. (I don't actually know if downvotes from lemmy platforms affect us here)

Seems kinda wonky. I'm working on writing my own flavor of an ActivityPub client. Is there somewhere you know of that this is being discussed, developed, etc? Iirc ActivityPub itself doesn't define this, right? I figure what we're talking about here is just the data model some apps have created within the ActivityPub spec - and by keeping it consistent apps can federate with each other. I'm curious on advancement of that model to introduce new concepts and features but retain some compatibility.