[–] [deleted] 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago
[–] PeaceSeeker [S] 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Thanks for participating in the discussion and not sperging out.
[–] Dortex 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
The most obvious cases of vote manipulation around are all the loli subverses. They're constantly swamped with DV no matter what's posted and by who. Clearly the people involved are entirely uninterested in the topic, yet they keep coming back to vote it all down. You know what I did when Q kept shitting up my front page? I blocked them. I didn't keep the sub up so I can browse v/New and vote everything they post down.
A reasonable first line is that you should vote up something in the sub you're in. Ideally vote up as much as you do down. If you hate most or all of the content a sub puts out, shouldn't you just block it? You're clearly not the demographic.
[–] Maggotbait88 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
I agree. If you consistently downvote 90% or more of a subs posts that should be considered vote manipulation.
[–] larryhuston 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago
Of course you agree with yourself, pedo
[–] Nosferatjew 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
If rules are not clearly stated in the User Agreement, then it is not right or fair to ban users/accounts for violating them. Users/accounts that have been banned for violating these rules, prior to the inclusion of these rules in the User Agreement, should be unbanned, immediately.
[–] PeaceSeeker [S] ago
They are in the User Agreement, except for Vote Manipulation, but Putt made a formal announcement two years ago declaring that vote manipulation was bannable. It's not that the rules aren't rules, it's that the rules aren't clear in all cases, when when grey areas emerge people complain.
[–] think- 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Are votes that follow user pings to be considered manipulation? This is something that should be discussed, and stated if so.
I don't think that should be considered manipulation. I often ping other users into research submissions on v/pizzagate , or Pizzagate related content on v/news they might be interested in, and it would be terrible if their upvoats or downvoats wouldn't count, only because I pinged them.
A feature like this could also be exploited. Let's say a shill makes a controversial post, and then pings all people who they think might downvoat the post. This way, they wouldn't be able to downvoat the post anymore.
[–] PeaceSeeker [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
A feature like this could also be exploited. Let's say a shill makes a controversial post, and then pings all people who they think might downvoat the post. This way, they wouldn't be able to downvoat the post anymore.
That's another good point. It's probably best to just not take pings into account, especially since users can organize off-site anyway.
[–] MrPim 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
The only suggestion I can give is to have as a requirement the visiting of a comment history before considering apparent "brigading" as manipulation. That way users know to not user comment histories as ways of deciding what to vote on; let users know they can vote on what they find in the wild, but not what they find via histories.
Users comment histories can be made private. There is really no need for anyones comment history to be publicly accessible and getting rid of it would eliminate the issue entirely.
[–] PeaceSeeker [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Users comment histories can be made private.
No they can't, unless you delete all your comments. Or are you suggesting this as a workaround? An interesting idea, but there is also value to being able to see histories, and taking that away would almost be a reddit-like action in the opposite direction of transparency.
[–] Goathole ago
You are such a weaselly side of the mouth talking wordy bastard that it makes me puke. Get some fucking back bone you fuck.
You tooled out 500 words of text to say NOTHING. Like always.
Vote Manipulation
You're deliberately avoiding the real issue you fucking kike. All that text and not one fucking mention of it?
We get new users here all the time. NOT ALL OF THEM ARE GOOD. They all DEMAND THE FREE SPEECH that this site provides yet they have no respect for it. "Vote Manipulation" weeds these fucks out.
My username is lost tale and I was banned on reddit.
I hate how pretentious you are. You like to wiggle and weasel and be a fuck beneath paragraph after paragraph of bullshit. Get fucked.
[–] PeaceSeeker [S] ago
Jesus loves you.
Obviously Voat recognizes the userbase's ability to deal with spammers by downvoting. There wouldn't be CCP requirements and restrictions otherwise. But because of the importance of CCP on Voat it is important that users don't "cheat" to get around it (begging for upvotes / upvote farming would be vote manipulation, the very thing you complain about above).