That was to stop sanegoatiswear from going into his deep history past page 50 and using alternate accounts to upvote his main account. He was not the only one doing it, but it also cut down on server bandwidth and processing costs to limit it. several spam bots started using this method as well, which was one of voat's many crashes.
It was not an ideal solution, but it was one of many stop gap measures that have piles up over the past 4 years. If poal takes off, it may need to do something similar to address the automated bot problem.
Interesting. Had not thought of that. Thank you for your reply!
the sad part of this issue is that there are 2 sides to this coin. Those who looked for the reason for this change and were around at just the right time to find it, and those who either never bothered, or found restriction and never found out about why. An F.A.Q. page could have had this as an answer, but with only 1 staff member, there was never time to compile one. Putting an F.A.Q. together as issues like this pop up could help with transparency, and if anyone asks about it just point them to the F.A.Q.
Half the problem with voat is most changes like this are not written down anywhere unless you can dig through the announcements or the admin's comment history, which this issue compounds if it falls past page 19...
I've been on voat a long time (>3 years), but after the first year or 6 months or so I stopped caring much about the various dramas like sanegoat....But you make great points and the ones I've been saying on Voat since the last outage. Doomed for failure with only 1 admin. That's why I came here.
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