I have made a decision to alter and/or remove various restrictions on Voat. I’ve thought a lot about this and it’s something both @Atko and I believe needs to be reevaluated.
Voat has always had a problem with spam. @Amalek would spam posts and hijack the new queue making it unusable. MH101 and then later @SaneGoatiSwear would hijack comment pages making them unusable. The rules Voat uses were put in place in to combat this behavior. They are old rules, mostly remaining unchanged from the initial versions of this site. Most, if not all, of the rules were in direct response to spam attacks. It was never Voat’s intention to limit non-spam accounts, but this is what has happened as an indirect result of these rules.
Voat will not keep in place a system that permanently limits a segment of users from debating and conversing. This isn’t Free Speech as I see it or as I want it.
Voat will shortly be going live with a new code base, and I want to have a new system designed and ready for when this happens, so I am posting this announcement to get feedback from the community.
The main areas of concern:
- Commenting restrictions on negative CCP accounts that aren't spamming their comments
- Limiting any account that spam comments
TL;DR
We need to allow unpopular opinions while preventing comment spam.
How do we do it?
All options are on the table
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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piratse ago
I've said this idea time and and time again. NO restrictions. Let the mods do their job. And have a report feature where a small committee that the USERS choose investigate the account and vote to remove or limit. There should also be the same thing happening to mods that get reported. The committee can change every 6 months, and a person can only join the committee every 2 years or something. This can stamp out user abuse and mod abuse. They can still say what they want (outside illegal content bans) but you take away their ability to abuse the system. The people requesting committee spots must also meet certain criteria. Or you can just choose them putt. Edit: forgot to add, just remove up and DV. It works for 4 chan. I know posts disappear and that helps, but votes are just retarded. People can agree or disagree while reading comments, having a voting system just ruins subs and sites.
Owlchemy ago
More subs than you can count have no mods, the mods have abandoned Voat ages ago, or just don't care. See v/SubverseAdoptNotices for just the tip of the iceberg on unmodded subs.