In 4chan-ish speak (or whatever)

Be me

Working. Look at clock, damn gotta run

Get up, about to leave, forgot I have to run vote manipulation bans

It's fine, they are ready to run, won't take long

Get first batch setup, double check it, looks good, execute the code

Get second batch setup, double check it, wait, a parameter is off

Think to myself, hmmmm, what was that parameter set to in the first batch?

Go look at the first batch again, parameter is wrong, interesting.

I wonder what that did.

Go look, yeah, banned a bunch of people I shouldn't have.

I'm going to be so late now.

No code to unban people, have to write it real quick.

15 minutes later, ready to go, execute code, great, everyone was unbanned. Feel like superman.

Finish rest of bans

Leave 45 minutes after I should have

Sometime later, check Voat on phone, make sure it's not down (you know, we have a thing with that).

Have 20 triilion unread messages. Oh no. What now.

Voat is going full rage goat about bans.

Try to answer as many messages as possible. It's a warzone. Usually is after every round though, so expected

Check Voat again later, saw ping in a random submission

It said a long time goat was banned. That's weird.

Started thinking how did that goat get banned?

Why would they be farming? They can't be downvoting can they?

Recall that Dan guy got banned on Reddit for up farming. Definitely possible.

Maybe power users are into that kind of thing?

Think to myself, Voat is weird.

Sometime later, still curious, log on computer, bring up ban data

Wait a second, that goat was in batch 1

I'll fix that. Fixed.

Look over it once again, find two more

Fix them.

Check a few users who've messaged. They still got served the ban hammer. Lol a little

Think we are good now.

Still thinking about what the goats said in the warzone thread

One user said we should have an appeal process

Process we use now is old as hell

Coded to kill farms with no mercy

Written for survival during the sanegoat days

That was years ago. Reminisce what is was like for a minute. Damn I'm getting old.

Yeah, maybe we should update this

So, that was how the bans went down from my side. Thought it was entertaining enough to break the ice for what follows:

I can't allow manipulation, in any way. If the votes aren't true, I can't put my name on it. Manipulation of votes was why I left Reddit in the first place. I take it seriously. I also need to define what we look for without giving away our playbook (I have to think about this a bit).

I'll double check vote manipulation bans, that is totally reasonable. I hate banning people for manipulation, so if a ban wasn't right, I'll fix it.

Conclusion:

We are going to have to add an appeal process for vote manipulation.

You guys have better ideas anyways, so how should we do this? What should the process be?

Let's just design it from scratch. And while we are at it… should subverse bans be appealable? Do we need to write new code for this?

Suppose we can just use PMs though.

Let's make it better.

Someone told me Voat loves stickies.