The other day, it was at 96%. This morning, it was at 88%. Now, a few hours later, it's at 80%. What's going on?
I've started a few communities and like it here. I try to be nice and upbeat. My posts have been received well, not seeing downvotes...
Edit: I'm marking this solved. I understand it now. Thank you all for being so helpful!
Edit Edit: After days of upvoting, I'm back at 96%. I juked the stats!
Ha, now I have even more questions!
That's pretty funny, really. I mean, it's saying I have a bad attitude and I think, a lot of the time, especially lately, I'm critical of things, which can be thought of as having a bad attitude. (Edit: It specifically describes downvoting as being part of a bad attitude. Not sure I'm in agreement with that at all. So, to be perceived as having a great attitude, I'm supposed to love everything here 100%. That's a pretty flawed way to experience the amenity of being able to up and down vote.)
As far as reputation, I don't see that called out anywhere.
Thanks for your input!
Not quite. There is more on the fediverse than you could possibly vote on, up or down. Which means that the stuff you are voting on is the stuff you have curated in to your feeds, and decided needs interaction. And it's reasonable to say that if most of the stuff you are choosing to interact with is stuff that makes you hate vote it, then you're probably not carrying a positive attitude
Edit - And for what it's worth, you have a 100% attitude on my instance, because we have downvotes disabled! :)
I've given like a handful of downvotes. Definitely not most stuff. I've given hundreds of upvotes. I'll check out the blahaj. Thank you.
Bear in mind, it's a ratio! As far as I understand it, anything above 50% means you upvote more than you downvote.
Thanks again!
in my experience, reputation doesn't really show up unless the user has a bad rep.... they're marked by a few caution signs
related post: https://piefed.social/post/234177
also... for reputation: from source 1 - "The ‘Rep’ column is their reputation. As you can see, some people have been downvoted thousands of times. They’re not going to change their ways, are they?" from source 2 - "People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it."
Thank you. Makes sense. Just realizing now I had to ban a guy for stealing my posts yesterday and didn't really see mod tools that described him. I did notice he was getting destroyed by others for being a troll though.
Interesting, who was that?
I messaged you on this a second ago.
You keep saying "bad" but perhaps it's more like... "critical"?
That said, if you don't like something, why go to the trouble to rub someone's face in how you do not like it, rather than simply scroll down and move on with your life? Maybe even leave the community, block the OP, etc. - not liking something is not an ideal reason to downvote it, imho.
And the reason for that is that on the receiving end, someone getting a bunch of downvotes without anyone bothering go explain why, isn't a great feeling. It leaves them not knowing what it was that people disliked, and with the feeling that people are judging them but not before bothering to do a proper assessment. i.e. that the community is unfriendly towards them, maybe even full of people with a childish mindset.
I haven't even so much as glanced at your history so none of this is a judgement against you: I am just illustrating why a lot of people prefer to downvote responsibly, and therefore why someone might want to know what your "Attitude" score is, so that they can more properly pay attention or ignore when you interact with them - e.g. if you downvoted everything then someone receiving a downvote would not "mean" so much compared to someone receiving the literally only downvote that someone else has ever delivered.
It's not often I feel the need to downvote, but when I do, it's for trolling, fascism, bigotry, disinformation, etc.
You do you:-). But even then there are other things that could have been done instead, e.g. submitting a report to a mod or blocking someone, or leaving a community that is stressing you out. Ofc downvoting is perfectly fine as a choice as well, which will show up in your Attitude score that you are someone that does that, i.e. someone who is "critical" of content that you see on the internet and often interacts with it in that manner. It is up to you and also to the people looking at your profile to determine if you want to consider that "bad" or not, though I sincerely doubt that such a score (of 80) would ever qualify for that term.