After a couple days of discussions about the newly implemented vote quota, I’m kinda exhausted. It seems like a situation we won’t ever agree on. Me personally, I don’t want to argue like this over a piece of software that I have high regards for. It tears us apart, where we should work together.
It’s okay if there is a quota on piefed.social the instance.
It’s not okay if there is a default quota of 240 on PieFed the software - and thus for all instances.
I suggest it should be implemented like this:
- It should not be a default value
- It should be an empty input in the admin interface, where instance admins can set a vote quota if they want to, or leave it empty to disable the vote quota.
- The /about page should display the set vote quota.
That way all instances can decide for themselves and users can see the instances’ vote quota transparently.
Yeah few people post lot thing as we do. That’s the same for wikipedia. 90-10-1 rule. We could set a post quota too, i would be fine with reducing the amount of content shared here and slower interaction.
Those example above doesn’t impact the order of your timeline. And yes they are another problem.
I compared it to scaled feature because scaled is balancing our timeline. The voting quota is also balancing our interaction. So for me they are the same tool.
It won’t impact me, i mainly upvote, use chronological order and subcribed. I don’t belong to the top voters. If i reach the quota, i would be fine with it.