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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Cc1914 ago
" putting power in the hands of users " haha that's a good one ! I know your just passing along info but this made me rotf laughing !
ESOTERICshade ago
They already created a situation where you can create a sub and only certain users can down vote. That was supposedly to stop vote farming but it won't thwart vote farming and it hasn't. Try down voting in v/pizzagatemods. You can't do it and you will never be able to do it, ever. Only people that accrued points in that sub before they put a 10 CPP limit on the sub can. You have to have 10 CPP to down vote in that sub. But now that they set that 10 CPP rule YOU will never gain those ten points because the system won't add them. So if you get down voted in v/pizzagatemods its not your fellow board members. It s small group of users that got their points in the sub and then rigged the sub so that you will never be able to downvote the mods. Pretty sneaky.
Vindicator ago
Why can't you get 10 CPP in v/pizzagatemods? Just make some comments. I don't see the problem.
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ESOTERICshade ago
Remember we went through this when we talked about setting a CPP limit in this sub. Me, you, and kevdude tried to explain to people that if the CPP is set above zero nobody from that moment forward can accure points in that particular sub.
Vindicator ago
Interesting. Yes, I do remember that.
I just made an experimental comment there to see if it changed my CCP. It was at 21 before the comment. Hasn't changed yet, but I don't know how often the cache is updated. I know it hasn't been right away since before the port. I will check it tomorrow.
ESOTERICshade ago
You are getting out of my league now because I don't know how that would work in multiple subs because I didn't try it. I guess its possible that you might get that point but it won't count for that sub? I ran my test in a controlled environment with a brand new user name and only commented in that test sub. That way we knew exactly what we were dealing with. How that will pan out over multiple subs is out of my league. That user name I used has never commented again or been used I don't think.