pasa_ wrote: The upvote gained a timer recently? And a big one at that? That is not really a good thing, as you upvote stuff as you read right then and there, will not come back later. On SO the vote-spam is handled by counter rather than timer, everyone has a daily quote of up and downvotes (IIRC 50/10?) that I think works quite well for practice.
IceIX wrote: Upvoting hasn't gained a timer at all, but I did put something in that prevents any given user from up/downvoting another user a large number of times. Basically, if your votes represent more than a certain percent of that user's rep, you can't vote them until that changes. There's also a 48 hour cooldown on direct user rep giving, but that's always been there, for similar reasons.
IceIX wrote: pasa_ wrote: The upvote gained a timer recently? And a big one at that? That is not really a good thing, as you upvote stuff as you read right then and there, will not come back later. On SO the vote-spam is handled by counter rather than timer, everyone has a daily quote of up and downvotes (IIRC 50/10?) that I think works quite well for practice. Upvoting hasn't gained a timer at all, but I did put something in that prevents any given user from up/downvoting another user a large number of times. Basically, if your votes represent more than a certain percent of that user's rep, you can't vote them until that changes. There's also a 48 hour cooldown on direct user rep giving, but that's always been there, for similar reasons.
klingsor wrote: This was done to counter my systematic down voting of theunwise1's posts. I'm not sure what I did was completely wrong, since that dude's posts are generally worthless, so even out of spite the down vote should be spot on 50% of the time. I added him to the foes list and I get a warning about his posts and they are removed for me. It's like a nonsense filter! A handy forum feature if there ever was any. In any case the edit doesn't really detract from the overall experience. I've lost reputation myself and who's to say the down votes I received weren't done to rep-bomb me? Then it's up to a forum admin to decide, which is kind of arbitrary.
IceIX wrote: klingsor wrote: This was done to counter my systematic down voting of theunwise1's posts. I'm not sure what I did was completely wrong, since that dude's posts are generally worthless, so even out of spite the down vote should be spot on 50% of the time. I added him to the foes list and I get a warning about his posts and they are removed for me. It's like a nonsense filter! A handy forum feature if there ever was any. In any case the edit doesn't really detract from the overall experience. I've lost reputation myself and who's to say the down votes I received weren't done to rep-bomb me? Then it's up to a forum admin to decide, which is kind of arbitrary. Well, that was the trigger certainly, but not the sole reason. Without a limit, someone that has a lot of posts can be rep bombed by that number of posts by any other user. That's just not good for anyone. As for Pasa's ideas, it's something I'll look into. Not sure how much time I'll have to make those changes since they're not in the mod's immediate purview though, so I'll see what I can do. I could easily make any given forum not have rep enabled, but that's not really too helpful either.