Today Voat pushed an update meant to address three things: Vote manipulation, Archiving Data, and Feature Prep. I will keep this announcement as short as possible.
Vote Manipulation
I have been researching vote farming and brigading for about a month. And honestly, I’m pissed off. What I have found is simply unacceptable. These actions destroy Voat’s credibility and value and will be actively developed against. The following actions have been taken to increase vote integrity:
- Users no longer earn CCP in Private Subverses (Common farming technique)
- Users no longer earn CCP in Subverses with Minimum Downvote values greater than zero (Common farming technique)
- User deleted comments have their positive CCP removed (Common farming technique)
Archiving Data
- Voat is now archiving old submissions (current set to 3 months).
- Archived and Deleted Submissions, and their comments, can no longer be voted on.
- Vote counts are using individual vote counts instead of the up/down totals on comments/submissions*
- Users with High SCP/CCP should see an improvement accessing Voat when data isn’t in cache
* Please note that all point values will drop because of this new logic. Prior logic counted up/down totals on submissions and comments instead of the individual votes themselves (it was more performant this way). When a user deletes their account, their votes are removed but the up/down totals are not adjusted. Since new logic uses individual vote counts everyone’s points will be dropping unfortunately. Just heads up. @Atko was hit the worst of all, poor guy.
Future Feature Prep
- Schema changes were made to prepare for the re-release of Sets (grouping of multiple subverses). Voat will begin set development next week as we have designed many upcoming features upon this basic structural concept including categorization, new user centric functionality (more info soon), expanded and more functional blocking capabilities, and the concept of “following” users who publish feeds (more info soon).
- Naming conventions and indexing has been cleaned up in database.
Warning to Vote Brigadiers
I will shortly be banning hundreds of obvious alt accounts used to farm/brigade at Voat. While researching this problem, I noticed that no one is really innocent, meaning that we have both obvious farming/brigading going on but we also have this behavior from good solid users too. It is for this reason that I am not retroactively banning any accounts other than the obvious ones mentioned above.
From this point forward, if you brigade another users’ content your account will be banned.
Consider this fair warning that brigading and manipulating votes is no longer tolerated at Voat.
There is a new Sheriff in town.
Canary Notice:
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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SaneGoatiSwear ago
this is stupid.
you didn't stop the shills you fucking moron.
you just made it worse.
ALL YOU FUCKING HAD TO DO WAS REMOVE -CCP RESTRICTIONS.
YOU JUST FUCKING DROPPED EVERYONE'S POINTS?
SERIOUSLY, SINCERELY, GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU STUPID NIGGER. I HOPE YOU FALL IN A PIT OF NIGGERS WITH ONLY AN EBT CARD, JUSTIN. FUCK YOU.
YOU PUSSY FAGGOT LITTLE NIGGER.
YOU SUCK. YOU'RE AWFUL. THIS IS SO SHITTY
NOW 3 MONTHS BACK IS ALL ARCHIVED, TOO?
OH JUST WORSE
DEFINE BRIGADING YOU FUCKING RETARD
PUBLISH THIS NIGGERFAGGOT CODE.
SERIOUSLY FUCK YOU
OH AND ONE MORE THING
FUCK YOU THIS IS MAJOR CHANGES THAT MUST BE DISCUSSED WITH USERS FIRST. YOU DID NONE OF THAT.
AGAIN, JUST SO EVERYONE'S REAL FUCKING CLEAR: PUTTITOUT JUST GAVE FREE REIGN TO THE EMBEDDED SHILLS TO KNOW WHAT THE LINE IS TO BE BANNED, SO THEY CAN BRIGADE UP TO BUT NOT OVER THAT POINT. THIS IS NOT A SOLUTION. IT'S A DELAY. THE SHILLS WILL RETURN, AND GOATKU IS DEAD. THERE WILL BE NO MORE GOATKU. NO ONE WILL SAVE YOUR ASS FROM THE SHILLS. NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO KNOW WHO THESE "HELPERS ON THIS CODE" WERE/ARE. OF COURSE IT'S FUZZYWORDS AND THE SHILLS. THEY'VE BEEN CODING WITH PUTT FOR AT LEAST A YEAR... SO NOW KNOWN CRIMINAL SHILLS HAVE ACCESS TO KNOW THIS AND WE DON'T. ALL BETS ARE OFF, NO ONE IS SAFE.
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THE CHILLING EFFECT IS NOW PERMAFROST.GOODLUCK***
~~~~ SANEGOAT THE DARK GOAT IS DEAD. sanegoat the shitlord returns.
you're on your own, voat
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
what's wrong with the restrictions?
AlwaysInService ago
He's afraid that when all this people he made angry (when he banned them or called them shills simply for disagreeing with him) will downvoat him into oblivion and into -CCP he will no longer be able to mod v/TIL and spam like he does now