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?
you-are-me ago
The rules are not real. They are merely words with no meaning. Action is real. If you wish to know the limits of the true governing law, then you must push their limit until they break. You must witness the point at which action is taken.
Only at that point will you discover the true laws which govern your individual life. Everyone's life is different. Favoritism and politics exist. Even Plato stated that laws must be applied differently depending on the value of the individual. Equality is a lie. There exists a set of actions you may get away with before retaliation is applied. Most people are sheep, they do not care to find the true limit, they just want to be reassured that one surely exists, you just have to trust us, seriously, that's a rule...
Rules are not made to be broken, they are written down as guide lines, like fences to keep rule following sheep in line. If you want to find out why so many seem to operate well beyond the rules, then you must become a goat rather than a sheep.
Goats are more practical, they realize OP is just posturing BS. OP will do whatever they can get away with doing, i.e., they'll even not enforce shit against powertripping asshat mods that they modded in the 1st place, so long as we let them get away with it. See? That is the true natural law, not some invisible fence. Goats don't give a damn about fences.
SaneGoat got go so far beyond the fence's guideline and didn't face any repercussions, so others will think, "shit, I can do that too. Let's find out if there is any limit at all, and charge off into the screaming sunset." Then when they get b&, for being a goat, we'll know where their limit was. Herding goats is much different than herding sheep.
Such is life. Fuck the police. Rich or poor, there are zero consequences if you do whatever you want skillfully enough.
SaneGoatiSwear ago
lol