This is just a random idea that I wanted to get feedback on.
With Voat, one of the things we struggle with (on the backend) is the mutability of user votes (allowing a user to change previous votes on comments/submissions). When a user can change their vote (up to down or removing a previous vote) we can’t effectively deal with this data until it reaches the “archiving” phase, which is currently three months or 90 days.
If we can effectively “archive” user votes before this time we can do much more within the code base.
The idea is this:
User votes can not be changed after a 24-hour window (time period is variable, but shorter the better). This would mean that once a user has voted on a comment/submission, they are only free to change it within this window. After the 24 hours, it sticks and would be permanent.
What are the cons? How often would this be an issue? How often do you change a previous vote after 24 hours? Etc.
Let me know your thoughts on this.
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CantDentTheBrent ago
That's a great idea.
24 hours is more than enough time.
And it well help stop voat manipulation.
sakuramboo ago
How so? Once a post has been vote manipulated, why would they go back and undo their votes?
WhiteRonin ago
I’m sure some users will go through a user’s history to down voat all posts and comments.
sakuramboo ago
That has nothing to do with what Putt is proposing.
WhiteRonin ago
Does it not? He’s targeting user actions and I stated a case of such user action. You are being specific with down votes from the start. I’m talking about how just like right now if I were to piss you off, you could theoretically go through my last week of comments and posts and down vote away.
How do you think that I’m wrong.
sakuramboo ago
Because that's not what he is saying. He's proposing that your vote can't be changed after 24 hours of voting.
You can still vote on a post or comment up to 3 months or 90 days. The difference is that before you could down vote a comment and then 89 days after that, you could change it to an up vote. Now, you only have 24 hours to change your vote.
WhiteRonin ago
Let’s say you upvoted me 10 times because you like my content. I just pissed you off, now you can’t go back to change those votes. This is also what he is saying.
sakuramboo ago
Preventing a single scenario from happening is the same as banning bump stocks to "help stop" gun violence.
OP's reply was...
This doesn't "help stop voat manipulation" because it will still happen. It can help lessen it, but then we need to see how often your scenario actually happens.
WhiteRonin ago
I’ve watched my counts because I targeted a lot. It happens.
Also I said “help” which means it won’t stop it but will “lessen” it.