This (new, experimental) bot highlights when a submission or comment is permalinked from elsewhere in Voat. I figure if someone is talking about my post then I want to know about it. And it should discourage brigading.
But I can see downsides too - if you want to be sure ths bot doesn't notify the OP, add a query(?) to the end of the permalink url. That won't affect its parsing/resolution by your browser or by Voat, but it will break the bot algorithm and it won't post the notification.
I'll post a test post linking here now to illustrate how it works.
Comments, questions, suggestions, objections welcome.
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drstrangegov ago
Oh neat! Did I find the voat skunk works, where the magic happens? What you guys do is sufficiently technologically advanced to be magic to me. So thank you for making all this happen! I have to ask though...is some of the stuff on voat manipulation? Do you guys have a clearer view of what's happening in the United States and the world than we do? Because I can't make heads or tails of anything anymore.