100 CCP is yet again a requirement to downvote and changes I pushed yesterday are now reverted. I spent about 6 hours yesterday reading your comments on my announcement and I think it's pretty clear that majority of you had concerns with removing restrictions. Back to the drawing board I guess. Please accept my apologies for causing the mess.
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i208khonsu ago
It would be great if you could implement per-subverse restrictions with lots of options.
Some subverses may want the full unrestricted opinion of the public, others may want to restrict actions on how long you've been a subscriber. However I think most subverses would appreciate being able to place restrictions on actions dependent on activity inside the subverse.
For example I may want to make a subverse where you can only comment by default. Your ability to upvoat will only be unlocked after receiving 5 CCP, your ability to post unlocked after 10 CCP, and your ability to downvoat unlocked after 25 CCP.
An alternate method would be that perhaps I only want comments from expert posters on a topic. Perhaps this is a subverse focused on creating content, and I only want commentators to be people who have submitted good content. So I would restrict commenting and voating by default, but allow people to post content and would unlock commenting and voating after you've made a post that received at least 15 points.
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Another thought I'd like to raise is I feel people wanting the downvoat button to represent reporting invalid content is not the behavior which the layman conforms to. It's best to develop your functions to represent how people use them, not how you want to use them. We currently have a 'report spam' button, but I think we should just have a 'report' button. With this you can report the post as spam, or repost, or incorrect, etc...
With this I think that it's also important to be able to give people the ability to view the rankings of a subverse while ignoring the downvoats. For instance you could have categories of: 'Hot', 'New', 'Top', 'Popular' (only upvoats), and perhaps 'Hated' (only downvoats; perhaps make this is "secret" category were you have to type in /hated in the address URL).
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Either way, keep up the good work @Atko! What I love most about this site is that it's continually trying to find a better way to aggregate current events on the internet. Unlike that other site which hasn't made any progress in the past 2-3 years.