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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[–] nrd 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Why?
The first thing I did was to create a subverse, too. Also one that also exists on reddit. I didn’t have any bad intentions in doing so, I just wanted to bring a topic of my interest over to Voat.
I don’t think a CCP minimum would stop anyone with not-so-great intentions from doing what they do. It would only discourage new users who mean well. There already are rules that you have to keep your subverse active (by posting submissions and comments, if I remember correctly), so an inactive user wouldn’t keep their subverses for long.
I think it might be a better idea to have a general (and low) limit on how many subverses a user can create/moderate. Maybe just one or two for someone with no/very few CCP, more for people with a higher CCP. As long as it stays reasonably low. If people really have to think about which subverses they want to moderate, that’s probably better for the content quality than just tying it to a CCP requirement.
[–] Spank_My_Bottom ago
I like your idea more. Limiting the number of subverses would limit "subverse squatting" (akin to domain squatting) and weed out unmoderated subverses.
[–] BreakingBombs ago
I too created a subverse that exists on Reddit. But it is niche and likely won't have many subscribers. No bad intentions, I just wanted it to be available for when more people make the jump.
I like your ideas about subverse limits.
[–] Jashwua ago
This is a great idea. Keeping the ability to create a subverse for new users while giving them incentive to grow and be a part of the community if they wish to mod/create more subverses.
[–] notencore [S] ago
A tiered moderation system seems intelligent. I think your proposed implementation is probably the best method of implementing such a system. Well thought out! It would encourage people to post about that which they most care about, and in turn improve the quality of content on Voat! I'd give you a Voat platinum, if such a thing existed.
[–] nrd 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Thanks!
Deep down we’re all hoping for the day when we can award outstanding posts a tiny little goat to show our appreciation …