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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RobMan ago
I don't like this shit. It is defiantly going to lead to censorship of unpopular opinions, and as much as I don't agree with them being racist is nothing more than an opinion. I understand no one wants shit tons of spam, but we need a system that will only target spammers then. We don't need a system that silences anyone with low ccp. I don't now how feasible this is but maybe you could use the same kind of thing they have in schools to check papers for plagiarism. A program that would check over the words in the person in questions post and if it was over say, 70% match it would apply the debuff on a timer. Any who that's my two cents. I think this is a pretty shit way to deal with it.
Atko ago
I see where you're coming from, but there simply isn't a way to fully automate spam removal without manual labor (Who decides what is spam? The community, right? Spam should get removed and spammer banned? Isn't that censorship too?). As nobody is getting paid to maintain voat, this will have to do for now.
RobMan ago
I understand why you did it I just don't think it's the best move if you're trying to promote full freedom of speech. Personally, if there are no other options I'd prefer to have to sort through the spam.