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Well, 240 actions per day is reasonable / unreasonable? Okay, what's the REAL STORY, do you suppose?
(if I'm Jim Jefferies, I have a swift response ready, lol)
Honestly, my opinion is that any vote quota that applies universally is unreasonable and development effort would be better spent identifying the small percentage of accounts that may be abusing the system / manipulating votes and applying a quota to those accounts specifically or making it easier to deal with those identified accounts in some other way.
Like, looking at the modlog, you'll often see bans with "vote manipulation" as the reason, so that seems to be working fine for everyone else. Maybe put development effort into making those easier to identify rather than arbitrarily limiting everyone who interacts with your instance.
And I'm not convinced that the underlying reason(s) for having the quotas holds water, so if I have a bias here, that would be it.
Fuck me if I know, mate, but my takeaway was that such was the plan..?
PugJesus already shared with you a link from Rimu - https://piefed.social/comment/12082419 - showing that Rimu knows precisely who those people are. They aren't bots, they are humans who contribute to the Threadiverse in the form of votes.
If they are acting nefariously... then I would not know, bc we are not told who they are. But in theory, if they were, then yeah, just ban them? Or honey pot them I guess?
What exactly are you trying to say..?
You said that it was already the plan to go about:
I was pointing to a post showing that such had already been done, and the results of an analysis of such. There really is a lot of information about this subject, if you want to read about it - the link I sent, authored by Rimu himself - is a great place to start.