Archived What's the logic behind limiting up-votes before gaining at least 10 submission points? (AskVoat)
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Archived What's the logic behind limiting up-votes before gaining at least 10 submission points? (AskVoat)
submitted ago by JManSenior918
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[–] Arotaes_Forgehammer 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Firstly it's 20 CCP and secondly it limits bots, sockpuppets, and forces new users to decide how to spend their upvotes. They have to decide on which content is quality and which is not.
[–] JManSenior918 [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Whoops, thanks for the correction!
[–] xyzzy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
For one it forces new users to get used to the culture of Voat before being able to vote. It also blocks spammers and suckputtets from influencing the voating system too much.
[–] BananaBro 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
In order to leverage contribution from you. If you want to participate in voating, you need to contribute quality comments to the site.
[–] Huntard 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The only thing I don't understand is the fact that only comments count and not submissions.
[–] Arotaes_Forgehammer 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Anyone can repost shitty pics.
[–] nonono 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I would assume to make it harder for people to create dummy accounts go upvoat their own posts.
[–] ChillyHellion ago
I think it's because:
[–] JManSenior918 [S] ago
I understand the downvoting (or lack thereof) completely. I guess it's just strange to me the lack of upvoting. I don't hand out upvotes to just anyone, but 10 a day is very restricting. I also think it makes it harder to stratify different quality levels of content, because almost all comments have a very similar range of upvotes and downvotes regardless of what they're saying.
I guess what I'm saying is that it would (to me) make a lot more sense to implement a system like this after there is a large user base in order to screen people who come to the site just because it has become the thing to do.
[–] huldu ago
I would add to what other said that I believe it makes you comment and get a grasp on how the community works before actually using your "power" to influence it. It gives you some time to understand the rules and feel at ease.
[–] SpaceRosa ago
It's to avoid people making sockpuppets to upvote all their shit.