Reporting
Voat pushed a new reporting structure yesterday to help with content management, especially spam. Before yesterday we did not have an adequate way for users to report content and what we did have simply sent messages to smail as Spam reports.
Now Voat has a way for users to report content that violates different rules. Currently we are only exposing system rules, i.e. Spam, Dox, and Illegal content. We will shortly extend this to subverse moderators so they can add rules as well.
You can send reports by clicking the report button on submissions or comments.
Subverse moderators (Owners, Moderators, and Janitors) now have access to grouped user reports by clicking the user reports link in the mod tool box. You can choose to ignore reports which mark them as “reviewed” if they are not actionable.
Credit where credit is due:
Thanks to @Cynabuns spending countless hours researching, organizing, and filtering spam reports, Voat is now currently operating more spam free than at any point in our past. Voat really owes a lot to @Cynabuns and the many users who have helped by reporting spam for their thankless work in this area, so when you don’t see spam, think of these unsung heroes.
Blocked Users
Blocked user functionality has now been extended into comment sections. If you block a user, their comments will be collapsed.
Please note that currently when you block a user, all notifications and PMs are dropped entirely. We will shortly be adding code to allow the notifications from blocked users to reach your inbox but be marked as “read” so as to not allow harassing.
Canary Notice:
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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PuttItOut ago
We are actively working on alt detection and will be dealing with this problem very soon. The good news is we have all the data we need to test against.
Vote manipulation destroys credibility in our platform and community and can not continue.
Accounts that would naturally be throttled are supported by upvotes and accounts that are brigaded are restricted. It's the opposite of how the system is supposed to function.
SaneGoatiSwear ago
so if i'm being harassed, how do i report it?
PuttItOut ago
We will be offering a report user mechanism which will include reporting for suspected brigading.
What I can tell you with certainty is I see what is going on, both sides, and it will be stopped.
On a personal note, I appreciate your tact with this reply sane.
SaneGoatiSwear ago
i love voat because voat is for free speech
if i smell voat is going against free speech, or you are
i will call it out
if i am silenced for doing so, that is what it is. so be it.
but you have
ACTED
without community consent
in UPPING the shadowbox to include comments
your first major coding move as CEO of voat is to increase the shadowbox
it's like we elected hillary clinton and 100,000 migrants just got let in.
i would hope you would remove shadowboxing.
you aren't having community discussion about any of this
let me be clear
i don't support any action you take as a dictator. let the community speak, not just the shills.
and
everything i do is for the love of the human right to freely express oneself.
please remember that.
i pour as much time into voat of my life as you do.
because you and atko made a believer out of someone who had given up.
please do not do this to voat.
the methodology of "restrict all/giveall the tools to restrict themselves to stop a few" is not good enough.
it is the antithesis of good.
MarkTheNerd ago
Free speech does not mean you can spew bullshit without consequences. In this case those consequences are downvoats and what you consider harassment. If you stop acting like a drug-addled fucktard you'd find people a little nicer to you.
fagnig ago
Its good for everyone to see all the conversation, gotta prevent social engineers from censoring the masses exposure to Non-Approved Violations Of Thinking.
But the individual user being allowed to enable the auto-collapse of comments from users they themselves do not wish to read, does not accomplish this social engineering attack.
So whats your objection. Is this slippery slope to you?