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The recent vote quota has been a hot topic and I'm curious about its effects on the site, the feature seems to target power users but I'm wondering about the knock-off effect on content in the platform, since we know about the 90-9-1 rule that applies to most online communities where 90% lurk, 1% post and 9% engage with the posts, I'm concerned that having implemented a feature specifically designed to limit that 10% minority that create the content that the rest consume, have you noticed any issues with content dropping? is there any way to track that? do you know of users who have left because of it? I myself used PieFed before but now I'm using Reddit more, I would understand rate limits but vote quotas are a deal breaker for me whether or not I reach the limit, something about it rubs me the wrong way, and the fact it's enabled by default on every instance? it feels like we're punishing away the people who actually keep the platform alive and I wonder if anyone has data on whether this has measurably changed posting behavior or if it's just a theoretical

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[โ€“] Vicinus@piefed.zip 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not replying to Rimu's comment, because I don't want to get into it with him again, but the graph he posted can't be used as evidence of anything. The data isn't normalized to activity (posts, comments, voting).

If half the people left after the 1.7 implementation, you'd also see a drop in network activity. Based on our (Rimu and I's) previous discussion, there was a significant drop in activity (comments and posts) at that time (I don't have data on votes so can't confidently state they dropped too during that time, but I would be surprised if they didn't correlate with the posts and comments.

As one of the other commentors said, pugjesus left, which I think, was unfortunate but understandable. I was considering leaving, but .zip removed the limit and I believe several other instances did as well.

[โ€“] Blaze@quokk.au 10 points 2 days ago

Nice to hear about .zip