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?
Shizy ago
They can go through someone's comment history and downvoat everything.
sakuramboo ago
That has nothing to do with what Putt is proposing
Shizy ago
If comments can not be voted on after 24 hours it would prevent someone going back through 7 days worth of a users history and downvoating every comment they made, so yes it would be impacted by what Putt is proposing.
sakuramboo ago
That's not what Putt is proposing. YOUR vote's can't change after 24 hours. Meaning, when YOU up/down vote. After 24 hours, YOU can not change YOUR vote.