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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[–] randyfox ago
Well, in light of the news that some of reddit wish to put reddit mods in the position of mods of subverses, it might not be a bad idea. Even if those posts were satire, who's to say that couldn't happen? Having a standard for who can mod, as we do for up and downvoating, sounds reasonable.