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The Voting Quota has ruined my workflow (piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by CyberSage@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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So, I used to vote on posts constantly—not really to give karma, but as a quick way to mark them as read to get them out of my feed. It was perfect: a single click, much faster than actually opening the post. But now with the new voting quota in place, I can't do that anymore without hitting the limit. According to discussions on the instance, the quota was implemented to limit voting activity, and it's already affecting users who vote frequently.

The "Hide posts I've interacted with" setting is still there, but it relies on that interaction happening . What am I supposed to do now? Opening each post to mark it as read is significantly slower. Is there another way to mark posts as read in bulk that I'm missing, or is this just how it's going to be now?

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[–] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could export your settings and switch to an instance with a higher vote quota. It can be changed by admins from the default 240 to any number by setting VOTE_QUOTA in .docker.env

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But how would anyone know which servers have done so?

Trial and error, and then it could still change at any time? I don't see it anywhere in the About sections e.g. https://feddit.online/about. Edit: and even after you've made an account, I see no method to arrive at a numeric depiction of the quota - it's merely depicted as a visual bar, but it doesn't say whether that represents 10, 100, or 1000 votes, so there is no way to figure that out except start voting and see how fast it fills up to reach the cap?

And the Instance Picker is already an absolute mess - e.g. see https://piefed.zip/auth/instance_chooser, or try to decipher what "Defederation: Good" means (is that... high? low? loose? strict? "Good" for who - a tankie, banning any criticism of Russia, China, or North Korea? or a former non-technical normal user coming from Reddit?), plus I see no mention of how a vote quota would be represented here (lowering "Newbie friendly" status I would presume, since this goes against expectations, as e.g. set by Reddit that does not place any limits upon engagements).

This new "anti-feature" is not very transparent at all.