Post #3925355

Wonderful to see such changes continue to be made to advance PieFed and thereby the Threadiverse/Fediverse overall! a maximum number of votes that can be cast each day I don’t get this one though - isn’t voting an actual contribution, alongside commenting and posting, which makes the place feel more welcoming and active? Is the fear that some are making an outsize amount compared to others, perhaps especially a bot-net rather than actual human activity? We need people to post more, to comment more, and to not merely lurk but vote more - I’ve been trying to push myself to vote more, as nobody wants to keep posting to a place that offers <10 votes to a post, and only one or two upvotes per comment. Mind you, I doubt I am one of the top 2%, but even losing access to some of those contributions (PugJesus?:-P) seems naively to me like it would impact us all, making the place seem less active? Besides which, enforcement seems an issue: anyone who truly wanted to vote more often could simply make an alt and keep right on going, especially if they did so on other instances then it wouldn’t be readily detectable, and wouldn’t the total number of votes that ends up having to be processed still remain the same in that case? (Though perhaps it’s easier to process in batch from other instances?). But more to the point, I wonder even if for like the bottom rather than top 2%, will this send a message to users that voting is less of a desirable activity, that they should be sparing and only dole those out for things that they feel are truly worthwhile… and thereby vote 10x less often, making the network overall that much less active? If this restriction was due to technical limitations, then I’d love to see a rate-limit of any form of contributions - e.g. at most one or two per second, rather than a public statement that voting is now encouraged less than it was before. But again, I am not sure I understand this to begin with so it’s just a thought!