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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mispelledsomething ago
Does downvoting a user who spams the same copypasta across different threads when you come across it count as brigading?
SaneGoatiSwear ago
do you not understand?
he won't tell us. the sjws have fully coded the ability for them to brigade at will without punishment, but any user defending themselves is banned.
this is the death of voat
edit: only shills responded to this comment.
mispelledsomething ago
I was talking about you, bub.
Also: https://voat.co/v/announcements/1639027/8005388
SaneGoatiSwear ago
you're missing the problem. if i disappear tomorrow, the sjw cabal can sill downvoat brigade without ever being punished (because they helped code this into voat) and everyone else will get punished.
this is "one rule for them, another rule for the rest of us." cronyism and elitism by @puttitout @kevdude @fuzzywords and the sjw cabal.
fuck me dude you're not paying attention to the problem.
i'm the guy in pompeii yelling VOLCANO and you niggers want to argue over the cart of fucking bread i knocked over.
Firevine ago
Yeah nigger, that's you. You're the one banning and censoring while bitching about banning and censoring you fucking SJW insecurity projecting faggot.
SaneGoatiSwear ago
no. i unbanned all the shills
you are out of date shilling
get the script update memo, shill
AYYY LMAO
there are other words there
bye, shill ROPE DAY!
Talc ago
again with the dishonest quoting, lying your ass off contributes nothing to discourse. Anyone would think you actually want the downvotes!
Voopin__Voopin ago
i understand everyone's shitting on sanegoat these days.
but please do tell how this is dishonest quoting?
sane's quote:
the ACTUAL quote:
how is that NOT a character attack? Shit on @sanegoatiswear when he's ACTUALLY being fucky with the quotes, but this one was spot on.
Talc ago
Quoting is supposed to be the actual words, not someone else's biased spin on the meaning which may or may not have been intended by those words. If the inline quote contains anything other than a copy-pasted excerpt then it contains a falsehood.
In your example above, the quote "character attack" would only be true if the person was not a fucking SJW insecurity projecting faggot, so the reader now needs to figure out for themselves what part of the previous post is being responded to, requiring them to understand the mindset of the posters in advance rather than being able to simply read the thread. We've gone from an inline quote being an aid to comprehension to it being an impediment to comprehension!
Voopin__Voopin ago
(begrudgingly) OK, i guess.
I do agree on the aid/impediment thingie. However, I personally still see it as a character attack. Whether the attack is true or not is irrelevant IMO.
mispelledsomething ago
You seem more like the boy cried wolf repeatedly. When you're finally right, nobody will pay attention.