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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nameof ago
I copied everyone on this threads name and made a post, about the concerns of take over, I linked a YouTube video is that not OK? MY COMMENT IS GONE AND IT TOOK A FEW MINUTES TO GET EVERYONES NAME. I AM SAD
Vindicator ago
Is this it right here? https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2363941/11810061
nameof ago
Yes it was comic relief I thought it went along with it., The idea of putting voat/vote power on the hands of users...but I couldn't find it. After posting...it's NO BIG deal. I'm gonna post again soon...about that old code word stuff again...it was weird how those posts jept getting deleted...I go away when I get too confused.
Vindicator ago
:-) I've posted and had it not show up immediately, as well, including in my own submission history. It's got to be about the caching or some such techno-fuckery. Well above my paygrade (which is technically everything, since I get paid absolutely nothing.)