-the amount you can post in a sub is limited per hour, besides in subs you mod.
-the amount you can post in a sub is limited per 24 hours, besides in subs you mod.
-you can only post once every 60(30) seconds, site wide.
-you can only downvoat comments up to the amount you've upvoated comments
-in a 24 hour period, you can only voat 1/2 as much as you have ccp total
-you cannot downvoat anyone's comments nor posts that are older than 7 days.
-you can only comment (and edit) every 30(15) seconds
-new accounts and accounts with low ccp are more limited than this, and for an unknown period of time, are forced to use google to use voat - a major privacy breach.
-all accounts must allow google to sign up for voat - a major privacy breach.
-you are not allowed to access voat past page 19 through voat, besides your own comment history to page 99.
-past 3 months, voat pages are now archived and you are not allowed to comment nor voat on them.
**-you are not allowed to participate meaningfully in consensus building the direction of voat, like you used to before the admin switch 7 months ago.
-you will be harassed, attacked, and defamed, and downvoat brigaded before posts even show up in v/all/new if you attempt to bring any of this up. any of it. on this whole page.
-accounts with -ccp are serverely restricted,
which means users can effectively partially silence other users. this weaponized censorship has been utilized consistently by the cabal that has taken over voat, and has left a chilling effect on voat, allowing hugboxes to thrive and meaningful disagreement and discussion to be snuffed out. TLDR: downvoating has become a form of censorship, instead of what it was intended to be: curation.
https://github.com/voat/voat/tree/Dev/Voat/Voat.Business/Rules/Voting - go ahead, and poke around.
-if you are caught in a mystical trap of unknown measure, defined by a secret cabal of secret devs,
-and even upvote ONE post in a way they secretly construe as being party to a brigade, you will be banned without warning, without ability to appeal. This is not coded into voat, it's done manually by secret tribunal of shills named failure, disappointed, fuzzywords, and puttitout (to name a few.)
not even kidding. there is no rule written, there is no code in voat specifically for "vote manipulation" bans. hundreds were just banned with less than 10 votes ever given on those accounts each.
https://voat.co/api/bannedusers
worse, the two groups of accounts with votes given were goatku's - defending brigades with reverse brigades, and the cygnus army - a false army that didn't even account for 10% of just the brigade on my account.
meaning, puttitout banned some users for upvoating, and didn't ban any of the actual voat abusers harassing, assaulting, defaming users, and manipulating the front page by upvoat brigading themselves and their shillack nor any of the abusers silencing users with downvoat brigades. megapost link
-if you are caught protecting others' ability to speak on the same account, you will be banned for it, while those abusers silencing users are protected by the administration of voat.
furthermore, they have strict code already in place, just turned off that limits you to just 10 downvoats on another account per rolling 30 minute window. not turned on yet
TLDR: there is MASSIVE censorship on voat, but it's been a slower slippery slope than on reddit, in the hopes that YOU wouldn't notice.
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[–] HACKhalo2 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Anti-spam measure for bots. Unless you were trying, no normal person should hit that quota.
Another anti-spam measure. Again, unless you were trying, no normal person should hit that quota.
A third anti-spam measure. It's almost like there is a bunch of failsafes in place to prevent someone or something from filling the site with potential bullshit, so everyone has a chance to contribute.
Makes sense. You can only negatively contribute as much as you positively contribute.
A fourth anti-spam measure.
Anti-brigade measure (albeit it might be a little tight currently. There might not be enough content going around currently to justify a week, but two would be more than enough)
A fifth anti-spam measure. The horrors!
To get new accounts active within the Voat metacommunity. If your account has low CCP, it means you either haven't been active enough, the content you're contributing isn't good enough, or quite possibly a spam account, and the community is preventing it from getting a foothold to do more damage.
Explain this in more detail, please. I'm kind of confused as to where you're going with this.
Again, needs more explanation.
Bandwidth/Space restrictions. Donate to Voat to have them be able to afford the resources needed to perform those queries, or optimize the code to better use the capabilities the site currently has. Plus, there is few legitimate reasons to view content that far back, and if the need arrises and there is enough community support, API endpoints could be created to have third-party tools query that data.
Anti-brigade measure
Provide proof of this one. Putts has been listening to the community and has been tweaking everything he and the community devs have released since the admin switchover.
You will be harassed, attacked, defamed, and downvoated if you are a fucking cancerous moron that attacks, harasses, defames, and calls literally everyone a shill for disagreeing with you. You can't shit on someone and not expect them to shit on you, that's fucking liberal logic.
Anti-spam measure. I do agree that brand new accounts (less than a week or two old) should have different logic (like -100ccp should trigger the -ccp restrictions), but if you had an account that was <+100ccp, and it got knocked down to -cpp, then the restrictions are sound because you dun goofed and you need to rebuild your trust with the community.
Any 1D system like what Digg, Reddit, and Voat use will have this flaw. Even with a 2D system (up/down votes and agree/disagree), this will still be a major issue with the system just because of how we were trained with Digg and Reddit to think. The only way to fix this is to get rid of it, and that isn't going to work because it's literally what the site is designed around. And "hugboxes" will always happen when groups of likeminded people get together on a site that encourages people with similar mindsets to find one another. And there is a healthy amount of meaningful disagreement and discussion on this site. Look at me, I'm doing this stupid fucking reply that'll get me nowhere to start a discussion.
Tinfoil hat conspiracy.
This is best done by humans, not by a machine. Humans have the mental capacity to look at the entire picture before issuing a "Vote Manipulation" ban, whereas a machine cannot place that type of logic into a decision. If these accounts were banned because of vote manipulation, there is a 99% chance that it's because they were manipulating votes.
There needs to be evidence of this then.
Da Fuck does this even mean? "Protecting others' ability to speak on the same account"? Like, sharing an account between multiple people?
Anti-brigade measure, plus anti-manipulation measure to prevent multiple accounts on the same IP from downvoat spamming.