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[–] RandomAccess ago 

I've got a somewhat uncomfortable opinion for you, hope you're not the kind of person to get offended easily.

I'm going to assume like a lot of people you arrived here from the Reddit exodus (in fact I'm pretty sure I saw your intro post). I think a lot of us came because we were tired of people trying to control Reddit and make it over in their own image.

Why bring that baggage with you and start asking and pushing for regulation of other people here? Just my opinion of course, but that kind of thinking is exactly how Reddit turned to shit. You start off with "maybe this is spamming" and get a few people to go "yeah it is", then it progresses into things that pisses a few people off in that group become "spam" and you start blocking certain websites as spam and filtering offensive opinions and before you know it...you've got voat remade with all the same problems as reddit, but with a different group of assholes controlling what gets to said.

I'd encourage you to consider how are you contributing to improving the site and worry less about what other people are doing. If you have a better idea about how to do it, do it that way and if it's a good idea other people will see it an follow it. Don't sit around worrying what other people post or how often and when. @123_456 can post whatever they want to /v/news as long as it's news and it doesn't have anything to do with you.

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[–] dableb ago 

Not really.

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[–] chronos 2 points 3 points (+5|-2) ago 

Seems very iffy to me. What user wants to post so many links so quickly? A thoughtful one? Most likely not. Seems spammy to me!

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[–] rwbj 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I've been noticing a same thing in a variety of subs as I primarily check use /all/new to find interesting topics. It's not doing good things to the site since it's resulting in enormous numbers of submissions with little or no commentary - it makes things look completely dead. Right the front page of /v/all/new (25 topics) have a total of 7 posts, including the 4 in this thread. The second 25 links have a total of 3 coments. The third 25 links also have a total of 3 comments and so forth.

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[–] Danbear [S] 2 points 3 points (+5|-2) ago 

I don't really want to put limits on Submissions, that might backfire. But they could easily put a time limit between submissions to the same subverse. I doubt spammers would bother if it took 20 minutes between each post.

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[–] rwbj 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Yeah thinking about it for a bit I tried to ninja edit that out. You're fast.

I'm not sure what a reasonable solution is. We obviously want people submitting comment but it's currently starting starting to look like an empty site when the vast majority of submissions on the front page, and several after it, have 0 commentary.

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[–] Atko 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

In order to solve this problem, I have just implemented a daily posting quota.

Every user now has a quota of 5 submissions per 24 hours per subverse, regardless of submission type.

I see no real value in a single user being able to post more than 5 links or discussion threads to a single subverse over the course of 24 hours.

If you used up your quota in sub X, you can still post to sub Y.

This is experimental and it may need some tweaking, so please provide feedback.

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[–] caufield 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

We'll have to see how it plays out, but in general I like this rule. Reddit is filled with people who had (and have) great intentions but have become superusers. Collecting too much karma, submitting too much content, having too much influence over the types of content people see, administering too many subverses are all things that can negatively affect the site. Even if the people involved have no ulterior motive other than to promote the site.

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[–] Atko 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

No. Every submission gets timestamped. This checks if you made 5 submissions in past 24 hours. The check is made when you click submit button and there is no background/scheduled processing.

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[–] 123_456 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

That's a rather unwieldy policy to implement. Reddit's submission process is based on the quality of what you post. For example, if you have minus X points, then time limitations are imposed. Otherwise, if everything is deemed to be of good quality, it doesn't matter (to the website).

Anyway, I'm being called out here, but I think a user like this is far more suspicious:

https://voat.co/user/burtzev/submissions

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[–] Atko 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You're not being called out, I had this planned a at least 6 months ago and had a method stub in place all this time. I think this change will cause more diversity and more positive effects than negative.

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[–] Danbear [S] 1 point 4 points (+5|-1) ago 

Thanks Atko! 5 might be a bit strict but all that can be worked out in testing. Perhaps it will push people to try new subs and push content away from the major subs into the smaller ones (a great thing). Appreciate your effort in the site!

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[–] 721r 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

I think it should be at mod's discretion - if subverse has no restrictions to number of submissions a day from one user, then it's okay. If mods feel that there should be some sane restrictions (you know, 15 is maybe okay, but what about 100? 1000?) they can list them in the sidebar as rules.

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[–] BrutalJones 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

I don't see the problem. More content is good. If it's bad content, downvote it.

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[–] Danbear [S] 3 points 1 point (+4|-3) ago 

I get that. I see the same users posting 4 or 5 times to the same subs all the time. But they normally have some time between the postings, like they actually found an article and read it first.

But 15 posts in a matter of minutes...

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[–] KiltedKen ago 

I'm likely to post all of my posts at once, I'm not on voat all day long. I'll bookmark something for later, and might have many things to post, when I do. Possibly not 15 posts, but others could easily reach that.

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