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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)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@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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[–] Snoopy@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Consider for a moment that rimu might be a bit like George Lucas. Lucas had a vision and was very creative. No lie. But Lucas’s Vision when it wasn’t moderated or controlled was often his biggest failing.

Honnestly, i can't compare him to George Lucas. Because we also shared our vision for Piefed, even yourself. Blaze, myself, Travis, wj078, Hendrix, Skavau, MrKaplan, Ada, Travis, Pugjesus, Innermerkat, Rikudo, mobile app dev...and so many people that i can't recall their name, but they all took part in it...it's amazing and beautiful.

And yes there are part where we all fail. But we try and do our best. :)

I am not that unique or special. The way I moderate and run the communities I have. I’m sure is pretty common among many other people. Generally when someone posts I upvote. To help the visibility of the post and as thanks for contribution.

Neither i am. I do the same thing as you do. I also upvote people i disagree with, but contribute a lot by bringing another point of view that i haven't thought of. That's my way to encourage opposite ideas. I love them, they are beautiful.

For me, what matter me the most isn't being right. As i said, i agree with the idea of voting quota because it try to solve an imbalance issue as Rimu explained with graph. That's the core idea. The difficult part is how we achieve that.

That's not easy.

It is late and very hot, i cun't think straight with the summer. i'm saving it to reread it more slowly tomorrow. Thank for writting it :3