There's already a minimum requirement for downvoating, which I think is awesome, as it encourages participation within the community instead of silently lurking, and has gamified the up/down vote system enough to make me an active user.
Noticing quite a bit of new members snapping up 'good' or well known subverses with reddit equivalents, some accounts only days old, and others with only one or two comments. I propose that it might be of our best interest to introduce some form of gating, to prevent instantaneous acquisition of subverses following an account's creation.
Now, before I get all high and mighty, I'm going to admit that I did this myself, snapping up a subverse because I was interested in it, it hadn't been created yet, and I feared the powermod strawman. I'll admit, what I did was probably wrong. However, I'd like to argue that there's a difference between myself using a single subverse to which I'm interested, as compared to certain members, whose accounts are a single day old, creating a ring of porn subverses. I'll leave names out of this, as I'm not looking to rile a witch-hunt or an argument.
What are your thoughts? Do you think that Voat should require CCP to create subs, similar to what is required in order to downvote?
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[–] Espurra 1 point 20 points 21 points (+21|-1) ago (edited ago)
I think this is a good idea. Perhaps we should also have a minimum for modding a subverse?
[–] MrHarryReems 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Creating and modding. Good ideas.
[–] Loomas 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
There are good things and bad things that could come from this:
Good:
It would be harder for people to become anonymous powermods. Like having multiple accounts that are spread across many subverses (Ex. SRS mods all have a name "Archangelle", KiA noticed this and one of the thoughts about them all having the same name was simply to remain anonymous outside of any SRS related subreddits.)
It would show proof of investment in the community. Hell, you might even get better mods from it if you make them work for it.
Bad:
This sort of system could possibly make it difficult to start up a new community. Smaller subverses might not benefit from this because it's hard enough starting it up, but making barriers just to be a moderator might hurt a subverse that wants to grow without this single moderator being overwhelmed. He'll hire other mods, but it could be a slow process getting the necessary number of mods. Unless maybe once the founding user creates the subverse he/she could set a threshold for becoming a mod within their subverse? This is purely speculation.
This encourages a want for CCP which is good and all, but it's been said before that this could be a bad thing because people might just comment purely for the CCP instead of contributing something to the conversation at hand. Again, speculation.
Overall, I like the idea and I'd love to see how it'd play out.
[–] Espurra 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You make some good points that I did not think about. But, we could very well have this on trial for a bit. After all, we're still in alpha so trying things out and seeing where it goes seems like it should be okay :)
[–] Spank_My_Bottom 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hi, I created this account to mod NSFW subverses. I do want to have my internet accounts separate just if some crazed prude decides to call my employer. Like this I was able to create subverses that were missing, and I can contribute there and be a participating member of voat community. I think limiting that potential would only harm voat.