SCP and CCP no longer play any role in your ability do submit links/start discussions or vote. You can now downvote as soon as you create an account. Please note that you can only vote once from a single IP address (voting IP addresses are stored encrypted and we have no way to reverse this encryption). We are still tweaking this so please report if you notice anything unusual about voting.
Edit: The biggest reason for this change is that I noticed how multiple subverses had "please upvote me" threads where their members were able to gain 300+ CCP in matter of minutes. At the same time, regular users would need weeks or even months to reach this level. That essentially broke the old system and we need something new. Perhaps requiring new accounts to create 100 comments in 100 different subs before being able to vote 100 times? If you have an idea, please feel free to share it, I'm all ears.
Edit 2: Here is an example of the problem I am trying to tackle:
- a large corporation which has hundreds or thousands of employees, comes over to Voat and pushes their advertising links to the frontpage because upvotes are not restricted for new accounts as much as downvotes
- at the same time, majority of Voat users today does not have the ability to downvote or has restricted downvotes
Edit 3: This is now reverted to the way it was. I need to think this through.
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2095conash ago
Maybe having it so that downvoting is connected to each individual subverse. So like in order to downvote in any subverse you have to earn X amount of upvotes in that subverse, which could then be changed by the owner of the subverse, that way big subverses that have a lot of activity might require 100 upvotes to be able to downvote, while smaller subverses might have say 10 or even none. This way as well moderators that care strongly about trying to prevent brigading then have a responsibility to go through and deal with any threads/comments that are "Please upvote!". You could even potentially have it so that the same thing is done with upvoting within the subverses to prevent people from making a bad or neutral comment and then brigading themselves up to be able to go elsewhere and downvote (or perhaps something based on time or number of posts within that subverse). Since anyone can create their own subverse, if moderators or such get too unreasonable with this the community can always make a new subverse that is far more reasonable.
I think the bigger problem is making a universal system, someone might be a pillar of society in say the news subverse, but then they walk into the gaming one and don't fit in at all, them being so important at the news subverse should not in any way carry over to the gaming subverse I think since they are different communities.