a small difference, but important to how people use the site

  • Untitled_Pribor@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    …but reading this thread I wonder if that needs a rethink - people seem to boost rather more liberally than expected/intend in order to game this algorithm.

    I think it’s because of all of the posts that say “boosts are upvotes”, and people are just confused, so they use the boost button alongside the upvote button. Once this gets fixed, the amount of boosts will probably go down