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[StephCThomp]

I just bumped into an interesting forum feature - a limit to how many positive votes a member can assign to posts in a given day.  A few thoughts/suggestions about this....

 

I tend to read Longecity in occasional bulk sittings, rather than casual dribs and drabs.  I imagine many readers are like this.  It means that votes will also come in batches.

 

I don't think it was a huge number of supportive votes I made - just a healthy handful.  Perhaps the quota, if it is to remain, could be increased quite a lot.  

 

Also, there's something questionable about the whole notion of limiting how positive or supportive a person can be.  Are these quotas really adding value? (How?) Or at least are they adding value that exceeds their detriment?

 

[niner]

The quotas help to mitigate the occasional abuse of the ratings system.  People have been known to go on vendettas, downvoting every post of a person they have a beef with, or upvoting their own posts via a sockpuppet account. 

[Antonio2014]

So... the solution could be, instead of a daily limit on votes, a limit on votes/pages viewed or votes/comments, it isn't?

Edited by Antonio2014, 12 January 2016 - 09:22 AM.