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Have you seen how it works on iPhones? You release the block at one of the positions, it upvotes/boosts the post and returns to normal. It’s not patented, it’s part of system interactions and is included in Apple’s human interface guidelines. Apollo used a similar thing, for example, but it’s used everywhere from notes to mail.
Boosting and upvoting are separate actions, and as I suggested in the post it’s probably a good idea to give users a setting to upvote on boost or simply boost the post. So it would be down to user preference, nothing forced. So if you were to turn/leave this option off, the boost action would only boost the post.