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What does "reduce" mean for an article, and how do I use it? (kbin.social)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by postscarce@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
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On an article I see: boosts (x) | reduces (x) | favourites (x)

What does "reduces" mean, what effect does it have, and how does a user reduce a post?

I see the link to boost a post, and I see "more" but this doesn't contain a "reduce" link.

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[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"reduce" is probably just a bit of a language mishap from a non-native speaker.

It means "downvote" (the arrow down).
The arrow up is "favourite" (essentially, upvote).
These two control the popularity of the post in the Threads feed (and I think both of them count towards "active")

"Boost" is equivalent to Twitters "re-tweet" function - it's a Microblog-thing. I can, for example, see this post from my Mastodon account and I could "boost" it to my followers there.

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, sure that makes sense. But now we have up and downvote, and boost and reduce.

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We don't?
There's just 3 interactions

Up Arrow (favourite)
Down Arrow (reduce)
boost (reblog)

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That does not seem to match. I see 4 independent actions with 4 independent counters here.

[–] missingno@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where do you see four?

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] missingno@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You've double counted down and reduces, those are the same thing. Up is favorites, boosts is... boosts. That's three items at the bottom under activity, with two of them also being shown as arrows up top.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Activity is just an aggregate of the others.

There's up-vote (favourites), down-vote (reduces), and boosts, each of which are activities.

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the 4th one and how do I interact with it?
Can you post a screenshot?

[–] Alexmitter@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The stuff on the "Activity" line are just for summary display. They don't do anything, just show you the status of who has done what. For example, if you click on the "favourites (1)" you'll see that I have upvoted the article (i.e. clicked the up-arrow).