Alpha Preview: Voat Votes (voatdev)

submitted ago by PuttItOut

I am going to start getting community feedback regarding the new Vote infrastructure we have been working on. When we release this feature, it will be a huge change for Voat, one I think will truly make Voat a community. 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.

This feature will introduce a ton of “what if” scenarios and we need to start thinking about the details in order that we introduce a solid feature.

Now that the disclaimer is out of the way we need to accomplish two things:

  1. We need to start testing the functionality that is present to ensure we don’t have any gaps in functionality that we will need.

  2. We need to start a dialog to find all the weak links and scenarios that this feature will introduce.

Work Flow

  1. Create and Edit Votes (Votes are private until you "publish" it and can be found in your profile under Votes tab).
  2. Publish Vote (This creates a submission to the subverse and allows others to see it, comment, and vote on it)
  3. When the Vote is "closed" the system will execute it, meaning the outcomes will be executed (Not implemented yet)

Create a new Vote:

In Subverse sidebar click "Create Vote"

https://preview.voat.co/v/whatever/vote/create

Find your Votes:

Click your profile name > then click Votes

To see Votes in a sub:

In Subverse sidebar click "View Votes"

https://preview.voat.co/v/whatever/votes

I will be answering questions in this post so if you have a question just comment and I'll get back to you.

Thanks Voat.

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freshmeat ago

It has always bothered me that a community can be hijacked by a single person or small group.

Any evidence of this?

ExpertShitposter ago

While you will never admit that v/gaming and v/Identitarian is run by a cancer mod because its your personal reddit boyfriends. Here are some that you cant disagree with:

At the very minimum it happened to v/askvoat by she, v/coontown and v/niggers by a butthurt jew, v/Chicago by a butthurt nigger and v/gunsarecool by henrycorp. Three were fixed by atko removing the mod while the last two never got fixed.

Also shut up about your myborders sub (yes its yours) because it never got attacked by anyone. There are no shitposts in it, no deleted shitposts and no downvotes on normal posts. It was a false flag attack that you did with your reddit buddies.

And v/frugal was shitposting for fun. We all made 3-6 posts till we got banned and the posts deleted. No one from SBBH made any complaints to putt about those bans because they were expected and desired as our posts were bad on purpose.

You seem to be worried that you couldn't participate in these votes because your nigger ass doesn't post anything on voat beyond v/whatever and some nigger music, so with the participation restrictions, even your 200 strong discord alt army couldn't help you wreck voat for more shekels from Reddit CEO.

@Artofchoke @PeaceSeeker

freshmeat ago

fuck off Sane

Artofchoke ago

Thank you, Sir, these motherfuckers make me feel crazy. And that's exactly why I didn't mention frugal. Ffs, these people.

PuttItOut ago

It's inherent in any site power structure in which users are powerless to affect change.

Read v/announcements if you want evidence of this in Voat's past or go look at any other community platform for more evidence of abuse.

freshmeat ago

My mistake, my question was referencing the part about it bothering you that people do that and if you intended to punish those users since you see it is an issue.

I've seen certain users get punished for partaking in this sort of abuse while others seem immune to punishment. Specifically /v/SoapBoxBanHammer. I know you have been busy lately but if you haven't noticed, there have been issues in multiple subs sporadically lately all leading back to users from ProtectVoat and SoapBoxBanHammer.

It bothers me as well that a community can be hijacked by a small group of dedicated individuals.

dragonkiller ago

there have been issues in multiple subs sporadically lately all leading back to users from ProtectVoat and SoapBoxBanHammer.

Yes there has.

fusir ago

/u/she.

freshmeat ago

that is old drama not relevant to the current gorups attacking subs right now. Putt worded it as if he has recently noticed this trend and intended to do something about it.

We are talking about /v/SoapBoxBanHammer

Artofchoke ago

Chicago? Identitarian? Gaming?

freshmeat ago

Identitarian and gaming were attacked by a group that allegedly bothers Putt. I want to see evidence if he has done anything about the people who attacked those subs along with /v/frugal and /v/mybordersmychoice

Lest we forget this same gorup attacked pizzagate and now controls that sub.

HarveyKlinger ago

v/Chicago is still cucked by a single faggot and all of his alts.

freshmeat ago

True, this is an issue with subverse requests.

Broc_Lia ago

It's also going to be an issue with subverse outcome-votes.