I don't really care about the points as only an autist of the nth tier would be pathetic enough to do something like that, but this is a serious flaw of Voat.
If you look at my recent history, you will find every single post downvoted by about 8-12 points compared to where it was originally a few hours before making my CP plummet from 300 to -6 (so I'm now restricted from any voting and I'm being told I'm a "new user" even though I've been here for 1.5 years). I'm 100% certain it was/is "SaneGoatiSwear" because he's stated on the Voat chat he can buy up/downvotes to manipulate people's accounts and submissions (he even linked to a page that showed where you can buy them), and over the last couple days he stated he was going to target me.
Voat needs to have further securities in place to prevent vote manipulation as this is a huge exploitation esp. on a platform that runs on free speech.
edit: I can't even reply or upvote to any the comments as I'm getting an error message: "You have reached your daily comment quota. Your current quota is 10 comment(s) per 24 hours."
I can't even message the admins or anyone lol.
This is a huge exploitation if a few "super"users can target users, and effectively censor them.
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SaneGoatiSwear ago
i am permanently like this for the time being. shill war and all.
like bro, i got a giant sword and armor on, srry it's shiny
i'm not sure.
because historically
that power will inevitably be abused to ban others.
right now all that's at risk is imaginary internet points
if -CCP restrictions were removed, shit comments still get curated, brigades still happen, but no one is silenced.
ferref? the cabal? the sjws the srs the fucking pv sbbh pg faggots that are doing this to me and all others who won't submit?
no thanks.
i believe voating is protected self-expression in the u.s., and OUGHT NOT BE ABRIDGED.
that means taking the fucking voats like a goat and not being a whiny bitch about it.
and for an example
i think anyone should be able to see all my comments and voat freely on them. meaning a user with 10k ccp could brigade me to -1200ccp right now. all by themselves with one account and it wouldn't matter
i see a voating free for all being the true nature of voat.
it might be gritty, painful, and ultimately, one hell of a wild ride,
but that's hella preferable to the restrictions, censorship, self-censorship they're heaving on us against our wills right now.
i'll take wild west over north fucking korea any day.
cheers for actual discussion in this shitty post.