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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derram ago
From what I've gathered, sane is deleting downvoated comments in order to regain lost ccp. I've still seen no evidence of vote manipulation besides that.
Rumour after rumour have people convinced he's spending hundreds of dollars a day to downvoat people, but I find that really unlikely. I know he can't program so maybe he's found a downvoat bot to run, but I haven't seen one in the wild anywhere.
Again, the argument was in regards to his attitude towards the site. Having some kinda karma war with the users still doesn't make him "anti-voat" especially when he's getting hit just as hard as the people complaining.