Remove the downvote option and a persons user page.

It's honestly just left over paranoia from voat that made my mind go there. If this feature was on that site, how quickly it would be exploited. Not just to downvote but to upvote spam and get past voting restrictions.

[–] Owlchemy 1 points (+1|-0)

True enough. No sense making it easy for the trolls and shills once they start popping up.

To be honest, I've never been a big fan of Up and Down votes at all anyway. I wish there was a better system. But have no clue what, if anything, could replace it. I generally just go into any sub or the front page and read stuff from the 'new' top down. I don't care how anyone else has rated it. If the title interests me, I open and read. Many have to read going down a popular list rated by up votes ... so it's good for them. Otherwise, the whole system is worthless. It's not like I can buy a cup of coffee with fake internet points.

[–] simone [OP] 1 points (+1|-0)

I don't think they're entirely worthless. They do let the poster gage what content the community is interested in and what might spark more involvement to the sub. Phuks is small enough that every post is noticed by the majority, my concern is for the future growth of the place. A spammer could manipulate the system by creating alts easily upvoting alts and get to the phuks level of making subs. Then they'd use said subs to spam the site.

[–] Owlchemy 1 points (+1|-0)

It is a good idea. A troll that holds a grudge against someone can weaponize this, too. Just go into a user profile and down vote everything they've done. Otherwise they's have to seek out every entry to do the same.

Remove the downvote option and a persons user page.

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