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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8005107? ago
@PuttItOut
This is a good point, can we get a clear definition of brigading so people can make sure they don't do it?
SaneGoatiSwear ago
@puttitout this is some dirty nigger shit
you could just remove the -ccp restrictions, but instead, you'd rather increase the downvoating brigades, and remove a bunch of everyone's ccp
TLDR: everyone just learned how many deleted accounts had upvoated them.
NOTICE TO ALL USERS: PUTTITOUT WILL NEVER RESPOND TO @ADSNEL2004 AND @MADAMOS'S REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION. ONLY THE SHILLS IN THE SJW CABAL GET TO KNOW. THE SRS CABAL IS LEFT OUT IN THE COLD - THEY WILL HAVE TO TEST ON THEIR OWN TO GET AROUND IT AND COME BACK TO STRENGTH. YOU HAVE NO ONE TO PROTECT YOU; GOATKU IS DEAD AND WITHOUT SUPPORT FROM ADMINS DOESN'T WANT TO RETURN TO AID CUCKS CUCK THEIR CUCKY VOAT. BUT ONE THING REMAINS IN FULL POWER RIGHT NOW: THE SJW CABAL. KEVDUDE, FUZZYWORDS, THE DUDE BEHIND HALF THE ACCOUNTS MODDING V/PIZZAGATE, THE HEAD MODS OF MOST MAJOR NON DEFAULT SUBS, THE JANITOR OF DEFAULT SUBS, THE USERS THAT CONTROL WHO GETS BANNED. THEY GET TO KNOW WHAT BRIGADING IS AND ISN'T, AND THE REST OF US DON'T. GITHUB SHOWS NONE OF THESE CHANGES; THE BAN LOG DOESN'T SHOW ANY NEW USERS BANNED.
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TLDR: voat is now closed source, and sjw-controlled. defcon 1. abandon ship, voat is for the shills.
creep ago
SJWs are unhinged, but they pale in comparison to you.
SaneGoatiSwear ago
i want people to be able to speak here without fear of downvoat brigades to silence their accounts forcing them to make alts.
i want people to be able to express themselves through voting freely.
sjws want to control the narrative and silence dissent.
they are the fucking opposite of me.
@puttiout @atko @zetareticulan (congrats on the sub sticky!)
8006866? ago
Hey thanks Sane!
SaneGoatiSwear ago
ignore the death of voat, zeta!
lol not lol
8007194? ago
I'm going to preface this by saying I respect you, and am saying this with love. I completely understand if you call me a shill after this.
I can see your point, CCP can sometimes feel more like a popularity contest than upvoting quality content. Ive seen some of your decent posts get downvoted into oblivion, most likely because your username was attached to it. I have also seen the times where you have been antagonistic, aggressive, and abusive to some users (and our Admin). Voat is an experiment, like Reddit, Gaia online, Tumblr, 4 chan, the likes. How do people behave when masked? I think the Voat experiment is going really well, personally. I am probably nieve.
My friend, I think you have a great message when you argue for free speech, but you have terrible delivery and that's what is giving you trouble. When you lash out at others (even if justified) it gets them off. Stop getting them off, Sane.
Pride is a bitter apple that is hard to swallow. I have been there. But the humility you feel after can be sweeter than honey.
Love you Saney-poo. Please try and be kind.
SaneGoatiSwear ago
ok.
8007394? ago
Won't lie though, how controversial you are is pretty awesome sometimes, the triggerings are epic AF. If voat was Liberal, you'd be Milo Yiannopolis. Also see this
SaneGoatiSwear ago
then you get a most wonderful reply:
conde naste most probably tookover voat, and the sjw plants they installed like kevdude and fuzzywords are now running voat, puttitout included.
while they banned goatku amalek and spartacus and the shill army of cygnus, the brigade cabal of the sjws that run voat is going strong, and although the sjws attacked srs (sbbh) and rekt their points (and like fuckin everyone else's for no fucking reason without any warning or explination), srs'll come back, test the boundaries, and brigade again soon. none of this stops brigading, it just hampers it. hardens it. pushes it to dark corners to fester, instead of bringing it into the light.
what has happened is puttitout has shown his alliance with the sjws, and begun the diaspora of the alts. wave 5 of all these shills' attacks on voat begins now.