To combat upvoting and downvoting bots

Summoner SpeII·Dec 13, 2019·6 votes·3,446 views

How about the person has to leave a comment relating to the post before they can upvote or downvote.

10 Comments

ModThe DjinnDec 13, 20196 votes

It sounds like a great idea, but I believe it would require more access to the boards code than the Volunteer Team is able to provide. I'll suggest it to the team though just for consideration.

Kai GuyDec 14, 20191 votes

Modification of something I was curious about previously. Would it be possible to make it so that only the Moderators can see account names for Upvote/Downvotes? Ideally with a Time tag attached. Seeing the same string of accounts involved that all hit within seconds. Would that give you guys the tools needed to lock out the accounts being used to spam votes?

ModThe DjinnDec 14, 20191 votes

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Modification of something I was curious about previously. Would it be possible to make it so that only the Moderators can see account names for Upvote/Downvotes? Ideally with a Time tag attached. Seeing the same string of accounts involved that all hit within seconds. Would that give you guys the tools needed to lock out the accounts being used to spam votes?

This is subject to same concerns about what we have access to that I mentioned above, save that it likely requires even more work.

Kai GuyDec 14, 20191 votes

Sub optimal then. Rodger dodger.

Yordle GunnerDec 13, 20192 votes

I like this. It forces people to actually engage a little, and if it's spammed it will be easy to see what's a bot and test it.

QuáxDec 13, 20191 votes

That still may not fix the problem. If a post has 63 upvotes and 21 downvotes, that means the post at minimum needs 84 comments, that 84 different people to choose from.

SukishooDec 13, 20192 votes

Well at least it would still foster more conversation into the topic rather than when you sometimes see a thread that has maybe 3-4 comments and then 50+ votes going up or down. It could actually bring people in to say how they feel, though of course there would then need to be a text minimum on the post so people didn't just come by and be like "FIRST!" or "TITLE!" as they do in a lot of threads now.

FOR JUSTICEDec 13, 20191 votes

correct, but that would also mean you would need a bot, to not only make a coherent post, but also make sure its not too closely related to other posts for fear of copy-paste junk that makes it easy to spot out.

KFCeytronDec 13, 20191 votes

The correct way to handle vote manipulation is to have one or more authorized users with read/write permission on votes so they can detect and correct issues, like Stack Overflow does. Requiring a comment in order to vote just leads to fluff like "+1" and variations thereof. When I open a thread, I don't want to scroll through a giant pile of useless comments from people who didn't have anything to say.

Summoner SpeIIDec 13, 20191 votes

nice i check 2 hour later its from +3 to -60