RE: Self-Upvoting – The scourge of HF 19? - Is there a solution?
What's an up vote? Isn't it upgoat?
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Nah but in all seriousness, this is a real problem. IMO in the next fork, they should just remove the ability to upgoat your own comments. That would be much better than any community policed solution. Just stop it right at the source, remove the ability from the code.
I think posts is OK, but you shouldn't do it at the start, as it discourages curation. With the whole declining post rewards thing, you're better off saving your own-post upgoat for later in the week. As such, I think outlaying capital to buy an upgoat for your own post is OK too, but once again, this should be done later in the week.
Lately I've been buying votes from @minnowbooster and @randowhale on 6 day posts, I find this stops reward decline in its tracks and even leaves you with a couple dollars of profit.
@reggaemuffin is thinking of having @minnowbooster discern between a gifted upgoat and a 'selfgoat'. There wouldn't be any financial penalty, just a different pic and text pointing out you're selfgoating ...
Great points and upgoats/upboats/upvotes are all at the users discretion atm. It is a cause for concern as its being abused by some, not all. Thanks for reading.
all of this. I'm not sure why in a system designed to encourage community that self-votes even became a thing. I like everything I've posted. If I didn't like it, I wouldn't have posted it. I don't need to upvote it to show that, so the only reason I can see for it is counter to engaging in a community and thinking of self first.