I just rolled out a new, rather controversial feature which should help get some of the shitposters which voat attracted over the past few weeks under control.
How this works
- If a user has -50 CCP or less, they will only be able to post 5 comments per day until their CCP improves.
- If a user has -50 CCP or less, they will only be able to submit 1 discussion or 1 link per day until their CCP improves.
Why do we need this?
There are voat users with CCP at around -300 and these guys submit 20+ links per hour. While voat userbase is relatively small, allowing shitposters to run free and post copypasta crap day in and day out, may have negative effect on legit users.
This feature may be seen as as a tool to limit free speech (voat moto is "have your say" after all), but free speech doesn't mean that everyone should be allowed to post endless copypasta crap all over voat in matters of minutes and thus impact the free speech of other users as shitposting copypasta crap will push down submissions of other users from /v/all/new and as such, if left uncontrolled, have a negative effect on freedom of speech of other users.
I don't care about the kind of content is being posted, as long as the content being posted is legal and not being spammed all over voat. If you want to get your message across, why not try doing it in a thought-out manner, discussing the topic, letting other users chime in and taking it from there, rather than just shouting your message across random subverses?
Now what?
I will keep this feature operational as a test-run to see how it works in practice.
Please feel free to discuss this and tell me how you feel about this.
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unfair ago
Yupp this is a great change - the only future flaw I see is that there needs to be a limit on how much negative CCP you can get from a specific post. Right now it isn't an issue because of the 100 CCP required to downvote, but once a broad group of people is over 100 then it becomes possible to brigade people into the negatives and they'll have a real hard time coming back from that.
Atko ago
This is why we're still allowing people to post even if they have a lot of negative CCP. In this test version, "shunned" people can still submit 5 comments per day and 1 link or discussion per day. Nobody can take that away from you, regardless of how controversial or provoking things you submit are.
redpilldessert ago
Perhaps have a meritocracy Google rank type system where the WEIGHT of votes towards others are based on how much credibility they have themselves. So someone with a high amount of CCP will be able to exert more influence on anything they vote on. The mathematics work out brilliant.