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Okay, maybe I'm missing something? But it seems like the recent backlash upon our dev trying out caps upon our votes is just... WTF!? (piefed.social)
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IIRC, PF-dev Rimu recently explained exactly why he was trialing such limits in a recent software update post. I.e., to create a more efficient internal & external software / HW backbone, for us users, AFAIK. Based on network / host / server loads etc, as I read the updates.

But yeah... the amount of recent negative reaction so far upon that seems... weirdly outsized?
(like, WTF?)

Like-- who the heck comes here exhausted upon corporate social media, and expects a free, open-source community of devs not to tinker with the road-posts and such..?

Pardon my puzzlement here, but I'm a happy PF contributor, and love @PugJesus@piefed.social. Both the dev here and PJ are friends of a sort, and some people I will always try to support.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Limiting the voting is only going to negatively affect normal users, while those who abuse the system will continue to be able to do so. Regular user will hit the quota and be forced to wait; someone trying to actually influence opinions and shit will just switch to a different account and continue manipulating votes.

It's also a bit hypocritical to frame it as trying to prevent certain influences when it's being forced upon you by another dude who has complete control over the software. It's okay when it's Rimu influencing things, but not any of the actually active power users? Absolutely moronic.