Hypothesis confirmed by experiment. Enjoy the boost.

So basically a boost acts like a “super-upvote” (in addition to acting like a share). Man, this is going to be interesting.

EDIT: See replies below for more details.

Oof. It feels like every new social media platform insists on replicating the mistakes of their predecessors. You’d think by now there would be an established body of design patterns for social media. This looks like it might be relevant, even though it’s quite old now.

edit: it’s also interesting that only downvotes count for “reputation points”, so anyone who raises their heads above the parapet in a contentious thread is at risk of instantly having a negative reputation [edit 2: QED]. I have no idea what effect that will have though…

Down to -3 now. It looks like it’s a tally of downvotes on any posts and comments counted on their own. That seems to be a strange choice, and implies that the first rule of kbin must be never to argue with conspiracy theorists if you want to maintain your social credit rating.

That won’t happen. The high API prices are there to fleece the AI bros desperate for training data for their new models.

What might happen is that they might offer some limited concessions to some devs under some conditions for some period of time in the hope that this gets misreported as “Reddit says okay to devs” and the fuss dies down despite nothing having changed in the long run.