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.

  • univers3man@piefed.worldEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    I agree. I upvote just about anything that fits the community and I appreciate someone posting. I also post stuff explicitly hoping that other see it, and we have to face facts: many people just lurk and upvote, and there hasn’t been a good way to get around that.