Introducing: comment and submission throttling for users with negative CCP (announcements)

submitted ago by Atko

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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camoceltic ago

Agreed. All the subs I go to don't get more than one or two posts a day, so a week would still mean that a post could be on Page 1 of the sub, but you wouldn't be able to vote on it.

Maybe also add an indicator for when you can't vote on a post anymore. Maybe an hourglass that's tall enough to replace both vote arrows, signaling that you're too late (hourglass itself) and that you can't vote (No more arrows to click)? An annoying thing on Reddit for me was that I'd occasionally find an old post, click a vote button without seeing its age, and get met with the "This post is archived and voting is disabled" or whatever message it is.

InfiniteJest ago

As the site gains more users, the lock time could be adjusted. As of now, it seems that anything shorter than a month could be detrimental.