Is there anything being done about upvote/downvote bots?
I don't know if it's just me, but they seem to be exceptionally active recently.
I was just wondering if any measures are being implemented to defend against them.
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the problem is, due to the technical limitations of the boards themselves, there's not really alot the mods can do about it
from what I've read the solutions are being discussed but the options are limited
Probably not, Riot focuses more on Reddit than the boards.
They've been active for as long as I can remember on these forums.
I stopped making quality content for these forums because of them. Nowadays, all my posts are shit posts and low quality GD posts.
I used to post top notch quality memes but ah getting down voted for a meme because one fuck have a million account isn't worth the effort to make quality content and memes.
I think the mods hands are tied on this problem since it doesn't sound like they can see where upvotes/downvotes come from. If they had access to that information it would be a lot easier to handle the problem.
This presumes that they can ban a player from voting on the boards. If not, it's yet another back-end programming problem related to the board and the database that stores everyone's accounts and posts.
The options on the table are pretty limited.
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Remove voting completely. Which would void 2 sorting/categories (hot/best) and when done previously, get community backlash.
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Remove down voting. Which only helps with half the problem.
My suggestion would be an auto lock if x votes happen in y minutes, but the forum code is old and may be unable to do such.