not answering directly to your post, just having a reflection about the state of things: if you check the thread we are in you can see that I'm almost always downvoted and you are always upvoted. just scroll back from here.
this is exactly the issue with this downvote culture inherited from reddit. the promotion of a single point of view and the exclusion of anyone trying to express something different from the constructed culture.
I'm all about deconstructing this.
yes it's pretty ironic.
go check my profile, it will make you feel better 🤣
you can undo a boost by clicking on it a seconde time, no? and you'll have a confirmation with the term boost being underscored
boosts are like retweet. it improves the visibility of a thread. it's like sharing it with all your followers + promoting it to the top category.
I boost content that I want to be seen. I upvote content as a kind gesture for the author. I downvote content that is really not appropriate but just not enough to be reported.
in kbin, boosts and upvotes are like boosts and favorites in mastodon/calckey. but in here, boosts also ranking up the thread in the top category.
the reputation point is broken tho, because the mechanism behind boost and upvote have been modified/switched a few days ago, but the reputation point code not updated yet.
you'll have to translate 15 strings of kbin.pub? 😉 https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/2428/kbin-Translations
so let's change that! 🤗
you do you, but I'm reluctant of building a community where the majority decide what's popular or unpopular with such behaviour. I'm more inclined to design and act for inclusivity.
this is exactly what I wish we don't bring from reddit.
the cornerstone of democracy is education.
this seems to be the consensus.
the question of reputation points have been ask a dozen a time this last days and It seems that it's just a code issue.