Curious if this will ever become a concept to help put a stop to spam/bots.

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    Simple, this isn’t Reddit.

    More complicated, Kbin doesn’t propagate downvotes from the Federation as a whole. It only counts the ones made on Kbin. Upvotes do propagate though, and reputation is determined by the ratio you get of upvotes to downvotes. So technically your Kbin reputation is inflated and not entirely accurate.

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      Only it is more complicated than that too …kbin has boosts as well as upvotes, and boosts count double, so reputation is:
      Boosts x2 + upvotes - downvotes
      and all of that is as observed by that instance, so much of your history could well be on communities the kbin instance doesn’t know and didn’t see.