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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TwoTailedFox ago
This is a fine feature for now, but this may become an issue in later years. As we've seen on Reddit, brigading happens, and users have been reduced to figures well into the negative through no fault other than a set of users who disagree with what that user has said.
I would advise that a petitioning system be implemented at a later date, and a provision for users to be exempted from this comment throttling if it can be demonstrated that, on appeal, their conduct falls within site rules.
Wafflebutt ago
Once there is significantly more traffic on the site, it probably won't be a problem to remove the rule altogether. I would think this has a lot to do with the ratios of crap vs real submissions.
TwoTailedFox ago
More traffic means more attention from the corporate world. That means the inverse of your suggestion will happen.