Our fearless, alpine golfing owner and admin has requested community feedback about his proposed new infrastructure designed to empower users and make Voat more subject to votes. In his words:
I have always longed to empower the community content producers (submitters and commenters) rather than to centralize moderator power. It has always bothered me that a community can be hijacked by a single person or small group. It is my hope that this feature will make us all stakeholders and prevent some of the most obvious problems with platforms such as these.
I wish I had a nice thumbnail summary of the new capabilities, but I was not able to find one. It's still in the experimental stage. An earlier post on the subject from Putt is here: https://voat.co/v/voatdev/2358972
Please read his stickied v/voatdev post and share your comments on his thread. I highly recommend thorough perusal of the comments there so far, as this will be a huge change.
Additional discussion of potential manipulation by shills and other concerns can be found and contributed to here:
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Nana66 ago
When I vote on anything it goes away after I refresh, but leaves the icon showing that I voted. So my votes are all pretend.
Vindicator ago
Nana, if the icon remains highlighted, what are you seeing that is making you think your vote didn't count? Is the vote tally not changing? Do screenshot it and post it to voatdev. They are trying to fix all the bugs from the code port.
DeathToMasonsASAP ago
Do you have the 2nd or 3rd addition of Mein Kampf?...MF wants us to talk about it. Your oppinion?...Because you know, to question the state, is to be a Nazi
Nana66 ago
Start 12
https://i.imgur.com/aMhI84I.png
Up vote 13
https://i.imgur.com/5TOiEww.png
After refreshing the page only 11
https://i.imgur.com/gukvQAO.png
What is voatdev?
think- ago
v/voatdev
ESOTERICshade ago
button turns blue and it seems to have added the point. but then if you look later the button will be blue but it won't say plus one. the comment will still have zero up votes. but if you click the button again it will pop the point in there. its buggy code or something. its not intentional
Nana66 ago
Same thing happens to me on Reddit...sometimes my up vote make the count go down instead of up.
ESOTERICshade ago
That happens to me all the time. The icon will be blue but the vote won't be there. Sometimes if you click it again the vote will register. But like you said you have to keep refreshing the page to see if it sticks. Then sometimes it will freak out totally and start saying some sort of code letters like na na or something. I have no idea what that means.