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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[–] OmenemO 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
If someone creates a ring of porn subverses, isn't there a chance that said subserves will just go unused. Then, after a month, someone new could just request the subverse transferred to them? I think we're fine. I just don't want a situation where one would have to be a reddit style power mod to start a new verse. That doesn't have a very free feel to it.
[–] notencore [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I don't like the idea of being required to be a power mod either, but I think that the requirement of being an active member of the Voat community isn't harmful. Though you do bring a good example of a slippery slope to the argument: If one is required to reach a certain amount of CCP before becoming a mod, then what stops the next logical step, that bring power mods, as you've said. It's an interesting point of concern, where the admins will have to balance and tune it well.