bro, you missed it. from the info i've gathered, it was put up for a test run yesterday for a bit, and was stopped.

after 10 downvoats in a 30 minute period on one user, wait 30 minutes to downvoat that one user again.

that was the test rule

atko's stated that and more restrictions (possibly on upvoating as well) are coming...

Have I told you lately that I love you?!!

thanks for correcting the record, derk /s

all your quote is bullshit.

dude i'm for voating being speech, and thus unrestricted.

lol i don't think i've ever downvoated joe_mccarthy lol.

you claim other people, actual humans, are alts of mine

i never was a redditor lol

more of this shit bro.

oy vey derk.

but what is voat2? le free speech place?

you have made this a feel now:

aw dude, sad burrn.... 8[

Cool. I'll try it when I get of work.

But you did make voat aware of the issue.

Why not post to v/protectvoat?

Man idk what I can do.

To be fair, you have downvoted more submissions, but as the watchman I don't think that is too shocking.

I wouldn't care what atko and put think too much, because you do distrust them right?

I'm not on their radar, I'm a good little goat

I laughing my ass off over my morning coffee.

You got their attention and you seemed to have pissed them right off.

Hope they don't put your co-conspirators on the don't fly list with you, Try to play nice sane, they did build the boat.

Can you prove any of these things?

i'm gonna try responding to this in a nother way, exactly what you said, back atcha!

ready? GO

your being nice to being mean ratio is at worst 50/50. if you are a douche more than you are nice, while at the same time making no real effort to talk to people meaningfully on voat anymore, atko - something is wrong

no worries :) knowledge is power.

that's silly

i've had more submission downvoats for a long time.

i'm a v/all/new rat. i'm always downvoating the spam posts

however, there's always been the "more COMMENT upvoats than downvoats" that's always been there.

maybe THAT got removed? i wouldn't have noticed, as i have a couple thousand more comment upvoats than downvoats.

i dunno. what do you mean in your original comment and what does that have to do with api?

whaaa?

and one more time,

for you know transparency,

you the owner of voat, inc, "have your say"

do NOT consider discussion, commenting - as content.

also, clarify

you were caught

i'm sorry what?

so you missed it when derkatalog downvoated ME 1,700 times?

or how about all the half-day long brigades against me when i spoke up about you disappearing with putt, about you changing your behavior, about the bug you failed to notice for a year that could be used maliciously that had over 6 v/voatdev posts, and when i spoke up about the warrant canary being woefully underwritten?

you missed all those brigades against me

but when i don't voat for a few days and come back and voat all the voats i had wanted to, and stumble upon this new fucking tool

you claim i've been caught.

mfw https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/61431889.jpg seriously wtf.

you can't be atko or you have a split personality or you're being forced to act so differently.

again, mfw https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/61431889.jpg

you gave your self the right to downvoat while not upvoating or submitting links

you gave your self the right to downvoat while not upvoating links

mother fuck i have about 17k upvoats and 17k downvoats total given...

mfw atko lies to assassinate my character.. https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/61431889.jpg

first of all this has nothing to do with downvoating submissions. the restriction recently put on (and taken off) was about comment downvoats.

and clearly your second sentence is off, because i have more submission downvoats than upvoats (because i browse v/all/new and downvoat spam, atko, janitoring all day every day, i guess you don't call that contributing either).

do you seriously not consider discussion content? are you seriously attacking me?

seriously, my upvoats and downvoats overall are around 17k up and down total for subs and comments combined.... sooooo you're lying about me? looked at the wrong profile?

you have spent the majority of the time you've "responded" to me insulting me. what's up with that?

why don't you go remove the dox that was posted a day ago instead of writing paragraphs of insults to me.

so since your post is full of disinformation tactics, here they are!

straw man

hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil

create rumor mongers

sidetrack opponent with name calling and ridicule

probably a hit and run

invoke authority

question motives

play dumb

change the subject

emotionalize, antagonize, and goad opponents.

These limitations were put in after the @she incident. They are undocumented, which is nonideal.

https://www.voat.co/v/whatever/1334699/6519959

No, they're not. He posts regularly on multiple-thousand downvoted accounts.

What the fuck? So now trolls can just lay on any amount of comments with no repercussion at all.

See:

/u/antiracist1-40 or more /u/jesusofnazareth1-66 or more

Same guy. Every one has multiple tens, hundreds, and even thousands of downvoats in ccp, and he still can post on them continually.

no you meant p0ssum

seriously though do the math.

10 accts, 10 votes / 30 minutes

in 6 hours= 1,200 downvoats

nope

all this does is divide like a war on drugs, but a war on downvoats

the innocent users who may downvoat a conversation won't be able to go past ten

the slightly pissy pants users will give up after a few hours of dvs

but the trolls and shills...

will be dug hard into a cacophany of accounts.

this slippery slope gets worse every day man

-ccp restrictions

-shadowboxing

-downvoat restrictions 7 days and 10/30mins.

aaaaahem amalek aahem cough cough

We finally developed some basic anti-brigading logic and decided to test the rule system out on Voat. As an admin of this site I get PMs all the time from users that have their histories traversed and downvoted by a single user.

We made this rule extra lenient (imo) so as to only slow down brigaders going through a users comments pages and downvoting their entire history. So either this user is a downvote brigader or this rule is affecting normal Voat users and for this reason I've disabled it.

The rule was written as follows:

If user1 downvoted more than 10 comments of user2's in a 30 minute period, the rule would kick in. This rule didn't limit total downvotes from user1, but just downvotes from user1 to user2. So, by extension, user1 could downvote user2 10 times, and user3, and user4, etc. By our logic a spam account with negative CCP can only post 10 comments in a 24 hours period, so this would give a user more than enough power to tackle spam while still targeting brigaders.

We will not enable any additional rules until we get community input.

Attn: @KevDude

NO.

kevdude, i have tested. upvoats everywhere, and downvoats on posts are open season.

edit: and YES, open season.

just imagine a voat where every comment is replied to by sanegoat

remove the behavioral downvoat control

slippery slope, alduin

• -ccp restrictions (censorship)

• shadowboxing (self-censorship)

• downvoat restriction (behavioral control/censorship (only censorship if voting is speech) ((legal precedence???))

i'mm gonna make this super clear on the time line

• -ccp restrictions (censorship)

• shadowboxing (self-censorship)

• downvoat restrictions (behavioral control/censorship) (only censorship if voating is expression, thus speech, thus protected)

voat is pro-censorship.

oh lol, the admins have left a dox on voat up for a whole day now. cyna refuses to contact admins about it citing 'not muh job'

and yes. no fucking communcation afaik on this new behavioral control.

funny you said that at the exact time that he got upvoated into positive.

So no more brigading? This is a good thing.

You following someone around and downvoating them? A feature like that would seem to discourage that kind of behavior.