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.
Cc1914 ago
Oh ya ..I've tried downvoating in v/pizzagatemods before and no can do .. I have resolved in my own mind that things around here are not going to change just like they aren't gonna change ( for real ) outside of cyberspace . It's gotten so old , and is why we've lost so many good researchers . Its a complete joke how some mods in particular , think they are somehow authority over all opinion here !