In line with our userbase growth (I think we flew over 100.000 accounts), we need to scale up various quotas we had in place. Up until today, users were limited to 10 upvoats per 24 hours if their CCP was lower than X. I just bumped this limit to 100 upvoats per day. Let's see how it goes.
Also, we are working hard on optimizing our existing code before throwing your donation money at more servers. And yes, my vacation is no longer a vacation even though I am still away from home, we're way past that point now. I am putting all my time on handling this influx and I want you guys to know that I won't be able to relax until voat load time goes down to under 1.5 seconds.
Edit: you can try upvoating this announcement post to test if the limit increase works (hehe)
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Epicfro ago
While an upgrade is appreciated... why is there a limit in the first place? I'm new to Voat so if someone could explain I would appreciate it!
Steeledl ago
To encourage new members to participate instead of just being bystandards. Gives incentive to comment .
Epicfro ago
I'm not sure that really answers my question. By limiting voting you're giving incentive to comment? Does the limit reset after you've commented? Like I said, I'm a Voat noob lol.
Steeledl ago
Im pretty new here too and probably doing a shitty job explaining it. Commenting doesn't guarantee that you get to your 20 point threshold but if you were to never comment then you would never be able to upvoat more than 10 things per day.
I think the assumption is people want to upvoat the things they agree with or like and they want to have to ability to give out more voats. For this to be accomplished they would have to meet some sort of minimum contribution to the site through commenting and meeting the "comment contribution" where as otherwise they may have never been inclined to participate.
I apologize if this isn't coherent. I tried.
Epicfro ago
I think I understand it a bit better now. Thanks!