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PuttItOut ago

We banned a bunch of accounts today and sent a tremendous amount of warnings.

I did accidently run a batch with a bad config setting and had to manually reverse things.

I think many that got warnings today may be from things up to two months ago.

We don't check warnings like we do bans, so you can get a warning pretty easily but it's nothing to worry about, just a way of us saying "hey, your account showed up on the naughty report."

Durm ago

Does that mean with respect to your script as a whole that I did do something, but maybe two months ago?

PuttItOut ago

Yes. The last time we did manipulation bans was end of March, so this run covered that point forward.

NiggerVirus ago

Are we not supposed to have more than one account? I do but everyone knows and I don't hide it. I suffer from multiple personality disorder and each of my personalities needs their own account for this to work. I sure as hell don't manipulate anything though.

PuttitoutIsGone ago

You know they know if you ever up voted one of your alts posts, right? Unless you roll your VPN every time you switch accounts.

WhiteRonin ago

Well, that screws with spouses sharing an IP. I thought you’d be tracking device IDs which wouldn’t account for edge cases of spouses sharing a physical machine ... hmmm

Fateswebb ago

I got detected and I have no person I know in real live that even knows what voat is. I have a single account. Certainly it's rare a spouse also uses voat but I agree it should be considered as long as they're not clearly colluding.

PuttitoutIsGone ago

I'm starting to think this might have more to do with downvoting multiple posts of the same author. As in systematic downvoting. Just a thought.

WhiteRonin ago

Oops, half you and half him.

It could be but it looks like an alt farming prevention check. The threshold is stupidity low though.

Durm ago

For reference, I have no alts and no VPN, and always form the same locations, for the entire time I've been here.

I'm just saying this if it helps demystify, at least partly, what's going on for anyone else.

Fateswebb ago

Me, apparently if you argue with the same idiot for too long on the same comment thread you can be FALSELY DETECTED as a vote manipulator. Complete hogwash. Someone isn't thinking things through properly.

NiggerVirus ago

Of course I'm not stupid