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We've been discussing about changing the voting system and make it as follows:

  • Everybody can give a limited amount of phuks ("votes")
  • Each user gets sqrt(LEVEL) "votes" per hour
  • A user can have up to LEVEL+10 "votes"
  • Nobody can downvote until X condition is met and a certain badge is given
  • A downvote would cost the same as two upvotes

An example: I'm level 15, so I get 3 votes per hour and I can have up to 25 votes at any time. It takes 9 hours to get 25 votes at 3/hr, so if in those 9 hours I spend my 25 votes, I can still get more for the rest of the day (at 3/hr, up to 72 per day, being level 15).

We've been discussing about changing the voting system and make it as follows: - Everybody can give a limited amount of phuks ("votes") - Each user gets sqrt(LEVEL) "votes" per hour - A user can have up to LEVEL+10 "votes" - Nobody can downvote until X condition is met and a certain badge is given - A downvote would cost the same as two upvotes An example: I'm level 15, so I get 3 votes per hour and I can have up to 25 votes at any time. It takes 9 hours to get 25 votes at 3/hr, so if in those 9 hours I spend my 25 votes, I can still get more for the rest of the day (at 3/hr, up to 72 per day, being level 15).

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but make it hard enough to stop people just making a new account every time they reach their limit and want to upvote one thing?

I'd be surprised if that ever became a problem. As long as the new account can't downvote, and only has a few upvotes, I doubt there'd be much damage done. And if they really need to give that extra upvote, let them.

I agree that IP restrictions are a bad idea. I understand why Voat did it. It is effective. But it also screws legit users. I often couldn't vote on things when I was at work because there is a couple other goats there.

[–] PMYA 2 points (+2|-0)

The IP thing completely screwed me too. Couldn't use public VPN's anymore because other people were already using them.

I suppose if new account creation for upvotes started happening, we could address it then. It would be fairly easy to tell if it started to happen.