Ernest just posted some comments clarifying recent changes to Votes, Boosts, Favorites, and Reputation Points:

  • Upvotes & Downvotes function akin to Reddit
  • Boosts count as two Upvotes (link)
  • Favorites are added to https://kbin.social/fav if you Upvote (link)
  • Reputation Points have been updated

In addition to that, Ernest stated that “there is no connection between reputation points and sorting algorithms. It’s just info in the profile” (link)

  • frasassi@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    @NotAPenguin

    Yes it does. That’s literally what Ernest said and I even linked his statement on that in the post. It would behoove you to read it.

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          1 year ago

          Boost is doing two things, traditional upvote in Threads, and posting to Microblog. The way I read it is saying that it’s two upvotes is kind of a quick way of saying “one click performs two actions and your reputation points reflect both actions”. It doesn’t logically track that you can upvote a Thread twice, but it makes sense when you consider boost increases visibility in two different places.