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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Tipman79 ago
Or better yet, lock upvoats after 7 days the same as downvoats, and if you delete a comment, you lose any of the voats on it,
SaneGoatiSwear ago
@puttitout i'm interjecting into an important convo between two obvious overt shills for silence, oee who participated in the locke silence attempt and tipman, an open shill against me and free speech in general. please note that in the surrounding conversation, these shills make it seem like it's a good thing to make voats not count if you delete. this creates a chilling effect whereby people can self-censor to undo downvoat brigades or upvoat brigades. it just makes things worse. this is ALL slippery slope, the shadow now greyboxing included. remember -ccp restrictions are also overt voat censorship. we need to continue to make the anti-spam system better so we won't need to restrict all users to accomplish security.
Tipman79 ago
Nope, just against you. You need to fuck off and die.
SaneGoatiSwear ago
user openly admits to shilling against me @puttitout
archived capped and logged
Tipman79 ago
Could you even define the word "shill" at this point you fucking troll? You've basically called half the usebase shills.
Womb_Raider ago
I asked him to define it a week ago. No response.