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This morning on Voat there is a new wave of paid shills. Every thread seems to have a active poster, most only hours old, which are heavily arguing all the blue pill arguments. Its so obvious it is pathetic. There is even a new account shilling for organic food.

Poal is still off the radar... now is the time for us to think creatively about how we protect Poal from this type of cancer without endangering free speech.

This morning on Voat there is a new wave of paid shills. Every thread seems to have a active poster, most only hours old, which are heavily arguing all the blue pill arguments. Its so obvious it is pathetic. There is even a new account shilling for organic food. Poal is still off the radar... now is the time for us to think creatively about how we protect Poal from this type of cancer without endangering free speech.

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Why do points at all? What if the point system is completely dismantled? Let's find a different filtering solution.

The chans have bump order instead of points. This would take a lot of coding to implement I suspect. You'd need a whole ranking algorithm that took into account how many unique users replied to a thread in a given amount of time, plus a sage option. And it could still be gamed by having multiple accounts. Plus that system is probably better for imageboards than a poal-style site.

You could just rank by creation date, but you'd be extremely vulnerable to forum sliding.

Limit the amounts of post each user has: 5 posts per day per username for everyone.

You could get around that with multiple accounts. And I'd say one account per IP, but it's easy to get around that by switching your phone back and forth from airplane mode. edit: or restarting your modem or with a vpn