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WhiteRonin ago

I’m gonna post what my original idea was.

Screw votes. Completely!

Yeah, I know it’s a spam deflector but it cause lore problems than it solves. People bitch about all the time and vote brigades help noobs out. No win situation.

Your solution doesn’t solve alts either. Why do alts exist? Sometimes just to burn a user that you posted too much shit too. So create a new one. Many times it’s to combat down vote brigades.

Look, your transparency only deals with possible problems that were created by having votes to begin with. I want full retroactive transparency to burn all the fuckers who were on vote brigades. Trust me, the good guys started a lot of the shit and shit posters reacted. Simple.

Retroactive transparency would fuck up voat big time. Putt knows this. Many good reputations would get burned in hell. Loss of users. Loss of revenue, voat would need to rebuild and the angels wouldn’t like this. See!?! If you figured this out earlier, I would have made fun of you.

Now how to solve this

Nobody wanted to hear about it because god Putt solider want to bless the idea. It’s really simple.

Convert the report button to a spam one. -10/-20 would make the post/comment invisible and tagged for review. Yeah, that’s the shit part, moderation is needed. FB spends millions on humans to moderate posts and ads because AI doesn’t work well enough. If FB can’t figure out an algorithm, Putt sure as hell will have trouble with his vote manipulation thingy.

But people like imaginary points. Napoleon gave badges to his Marshals. People like this shit. But funny how many coding forums don’t use it. Number of post counts are enough to earn reputation. Some have likes that are transparent. Down likes too that are transparent. But they are at the bottom of a reply and you can see it all. So, I guess a voting system could still work ... but having it on the side like now, it only causes problems.

If you break up anon ... I’m 50-50 on it. Currently, it’s easy to abuse. Pings are the problem and so are people who have a grudge. Why do grudges continue to anon? Because they can. But wouldn’t grudges decline if people didn’t get down brigaded? Hence problems with votes.

The biggest issue with my idea is the human checks and also metrics that put posts to the top page. Early on this was needed. But today, it just distracts from other content. We have enough people here now that we don’t need to see that same article for a whole day on top. Besides, it’s just more imaginary points but faggets love those points.

I am still leaning toward the spam button to clean up posts. And likes for comments at the bottom if with need to keep votes. If they are visible to all it breaks the brigades and gives people credit.

Just my two cents from that asshole!

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