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Improvement for the vote quota implementation (cake.kobel.fyi)
submitted 4 days ago by squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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After a couple days of discussions about the newly implemented vote quota, I'm kinda exhausted. It seems like a situation we won't ever agree on. Me personally, I don't want to argue like this over a piece of software that I have high regards for. It tears us apart, where we should work together.

It's okay if there is a quota on piefed.social the instance.
It's not okay if there is a default quota of 240 on PieFed the software - and thus for all instances.

I suggest it should be implemented like this:

  • It should not be a default value
  • It should be an empty input in the admin interface, where instance admins can set a vote quota if they want to, or leave it empty to disable the vote quota.
  • The /about page should display the set vote quota.

That way all instances can decide for themselves and users can see the instances' vote quota transparently.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

This isn't the first time piefed has done some very stove-piped feature development. The same thing happened with voting agents, which were quietly removed after a bunch of backroom conversation and forum politics. It's a bad look all around.