dear @atko and @puttitout i am respectfully asking for an official legal statement on this. this is a super mega-striesand huge issue. as far as i can tell, you have removed all users' access to all users' comments past page 19. the only way i can see this as a legit move (to save costs or what have you) is if you're suggesting you've silently without warning invoked "your access to voat"
"we may... at any time... for any other reason we choose... remove any of your User Content from voat."
and deleted all of voat's comment history past page 19 off of voat.
(delete access to, or fully delete?!)
i sincerely, on behalf of all of voat goats everywhere, at the very least ask you to give it back for one week with an announcement that we have one week to save our data offline, and give us an easy way to export it to .xml or whatever appropriate format -- then redelete it all.
at best, please leave our data intact. if it costs more, help us understand this and let us support that which we love. putt you remember that pic i sent you? TRY THAT!!
if this is permanent -- and it seems to be -- i want to let you know you have let everyone down.
you have fundamentally altered how Voat, Inc. operates at the user end, and without any discussion with the userbase, like you have said you would for all major changes.
furthermore, you gave us no time to react nor save our own data offline.
how can any rational agent have confidence in this corporation when statements and actions by the corporation are so night and day different?
inb4 "we don't owe you anything" inb4 "we're just testing"
This was a move to combat a type of malicious request that was being sent in to take voat offline. We received hundreds of requests in bursts for page numbers exceeding the thousands like page=6548 and such.
The resources needed to handle such requests are beyond our server capability, and in an attempt to keep voat online we took action.
Clarification: Nothing was deleted and nor did I ever say it was.
Require users to be logged in for such requests, and rate-limit them based on CCP. Remove old-page request privileges for users who appear to be abusing them.
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SaneGoatiSwear ago
dear @atko and @puttitout i am respectfully asking for an official legal statement on this. this is a super mega-striesand huge issue. as far as i can tell, you have removed all users' access to all users' comments past page 19. the only way i can see this as a legit move (to save costs or what have you) is if you're suggesting you've silently without warning invoked "your access to voat"
and deleted all of voat's comment history past page 19 off of voat.
(delete access to, or fully delete?!)
i sincerely, on behalf of all of voat goats everywhere, at the very least ask you to give it back for one week with an announcement that we have one week to save our data offline, and give us an easy way to export it to .xml or whatever appropriate format -- then redelete it all.
at best, please leave our data intact. if it costs more, help us understand this and let us support that which we love. putt you remember that pic i sent you? TRY THAT!!
if this is permanent -- and it seems to be -- i want to let you know you have let everyone down.
you have fundamentally altered how Voat, Inc. operates at the user end, and without any discussion with the userbase, like you have said you would for all major changes.
furthermore, you gave us no time to react nor save our own data offline.
how can any rational agent have confidence in this corporation when statements and actions by the corporation are so night and day different?
inb4 "we don't owe you anything" inb4 "we're just testing"
PuttItOut ago
This was a move to combat a type of malicious request that was being sent in to take voat offline. We received hundreds of requests in bursts for page numbers exceeding the thousands like page=6548 and such.
The resources needed to handle such requests are beyond our server capability, and in an attempt to keep voat online we took action.
Clarification: Nothing was deleted and nor did I ever say it was.
vaginaenvy ago
Possible alternate approaches: