If you are usually a reddit lurker and are on here, it would be cool if you can try and engage with communities for a bit, just to try and get the ball rolling :)

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    I’d like to point out that the upvote/downvote buttons here on kbin don’t behave like you are used to on reddit they are a little different.

    • Up arrow = Upvote on Reddit and Favourite on Kbin - This is very different to reddit
    • Down Arrow = Downvote on Reddit and Reduce on Kbin
    • Boost (at bottom) = On kbin this is the equivalent to a reddit upvote.

    It kinda confused me when I looked at my profile the other day and my reputation was -2

    I’d only made one single post and it had 17 “upvotes” and 2 “downvotes” so the -2 confused me a bit. That’s when I realised the uparrow was not an upvote and didn’t contribute to reputation. I suspect many others don’t understand this either based on the interractions with my other post.

    Edit: To be clear while “fake internet points” are not overly important to me. “Reputation” or similar do give me an indication if I am contributing to a community in a positive and productive manner.

    Seeing -2 made me think “Who have I pissed off?” Till I realised that “Favourites” don’t contribute to reputation.

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    I’ve said it another thread but moderators need to be patient with all of the new people. I made a post trying to get some questions answered and was shit on by a mod for not knowing the rules. I couldn’t even find the sidebar at that point. If that is the attitude new users are met with when making mistakes then new contributions will be limited.

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      I really feel like “rules” for different magazines should be lax at first and just take out the obvious scum or completely irrelevant posts. Ease everyone in. There isn’t even an actual community in most magazines yet because there’s so few people. Let the people come first, then figure out the ins and outs of them.

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        Absolutely.

        The reason many of the rules exist on reddit is to simplify the management of a glut of users in a single community. When it’s small like this, you can afford to be informal until it starts becoming a problem.

        I would love to have the problem of a bunch of newbies coming here and flooding communities with questions about rules and stuff. After that happens for a while and starts to get annoying, then you start enforcing the rules a bit more.

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    I have been using KBIN since yesterday and Lemmy since the beginning of June. I was completely convinced that the Up Arrow was an Upvote until i saw this post. What kind of bonkers design decision was this? I know that Kbin wants to differentiate itself from Reddit, but this is really counterintuitive.

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    I used to comment quite a bit on reddit, but that was usually to get into technical discussions or political arguments. So far there hasn’t been much technical content for me to sink my teeth into and I have yet to run into posts or comments calling for my extermination so I haven’t felt compelled to say anything. I’m glad that people here are nice, but I miss answering questions about electric circuits, embedded systems, etc.

    Here’s hoping that some day soon when people can’t figure out why their op-amp is driven into saturation they don’t post about it on reddit first.

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      Quality over quantity - you are the kind of content creator we need. Do as you please ofc, but fwiw I hope you stay somewhere on the federiverse. I may never need your particular brand of comment, but people like you are what will make or break this place: memes are fun & all, but when you NEED help and you GET said help, that’s when you REMEMBER where you got it!:-)

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    Reddit lurker checking in. I have a total of 2 posts and 15 comments in 13 years of using reddit. Not sure about using kbin or one of the smaller lemmy instances, but I’m here for now.

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      Welcome. It’s good to know that your comments won’t get deeply buried in a thread that was posted 15 min ago. It’s still a small community so there’s a great chance of good interaction (at least in my experience using it for a few days now).

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      That is usually what happens to me. (<– This is a pretty useless comment as well xD)

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          Lol yeah I heard my rep on kbin is kinda sh.it. I can’t see that on the Lemmy side.

          Can you minus someone’s reputation without downvoting them? Because I feel like I’ve had like 5 comments that were downvoted, if that.

          I ran into some unsavory people when I was first exploring the fediverse and I think they group downrepped(?) me. Just for being smart.

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            So I got nosey, and checked out your profile. I’m really confused by your reputation of -31. What I heard was upvotes don’t count for rep, but downvotes and boosts do. Do you know, did you get some comments mass reported or something? Maybe reports count against? Maybe it’s buggy with non kbin accounts? I’d suggest hitting boost on your own posts, that might help. I know the first day I was active, my rep went up, with me having like 2 upvotes, but also boosting my own posts. It seems weird that you boosting your own stuff would have a positive effect, but I think it might. I included a screen shot of your rep page, so you can make of it what you will… I’m mostly guessing. FYI comments was the only category that had any affect on your rep, all other categories were empty.

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            Imma boost some of your comments, and we can see if that changes anything.

            Edit: So yeah, boosting counts for your rep. At this point I feel like I’m just playing with your account though. If you want me to remove all the boosts I just did, just say the word. Otherwise I’ll leave them.

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        Thanks for asking! I’ve actually been inventorying my mineral collection today, trying to keep fresh content for my magazine, lol. Minerals@kbin.social Started soaking one of my specimen, to clean the rust off of it.

        Now I have some French bread pizza in the oven for dinner.

        Have you been having a good day?

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            You are more than welcome! I need more people posting, if you have anything from your collection to add pictures of. My collection is only so big and eventually I’m going to run out of things to post, lol!

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    Am on it ! Been upvoting from the moment I landed here. So glad to witness and contribute to a watershed moment in the history of reddit and the fediverse!

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        Linking is still very confusing, that’s one of the main friction points we need to solve in order to really unlock our growth.

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          Apparently that extends to links from our notifications area too, b/c I had a hell of a time getting to see your reply. Maybe the number of pages expanded since then or something, but I had to really hunt for it. Oh well, still better than Reddit argumentative trolling!:-P

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            Word. I’m on Lemmy mainly and its notification system is actually really great, it usually pops up right in your screen with a little preview of the reply and you can just click it.

            Kbin I just started figuring out today and I’ve also been having a hell of a time navigating that interface. There’s a lot to like, for instance I love that you can see the user who downvoted any comment on kbin, and the reputation system is also cool.

            But the ability to actually find content so that you can interact is pretty tricky. I think Lemmy makes it a bit easier because you can poke around your home instance first to get the hang of things, before heading out into the larger threadiverse.

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              That’s good to know. I think both are improving technologically so hopefully even as Lemmy pulls ahead, kbin.social won’t be as far behind in the future.