So, I used to vote on posts constantly—not really to give karma, but as a quick way to mark them as read to get them out of my feed. It was perfect: a single click, much faster than actually opening the post. But now with the new voting quota in place, I can't do that anymore without hitting the limit. According to discussions on the instance, the quota was implemented to limit voting activity, and it's already affecting users who vote frequently.

The "Hide posts I've interacted with" setting is still there, but it relies on that interaction happening . What am I supposed to do now? Opening each post to mark it as read is significantly slower. Is there another way to mark posts as read in bulk that I'm missing, or is this just how it's going to be now?

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[–] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It may just be me, but I don't think this is what voting is intended for.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, I think so, too. It's not really helpful for OP in any way. But the quota seems to do what it's designed to do. Make it more difficult for people to do weird things with the voting buttons. Reminds me a bit of xkcd #1172 "Workflow".

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago

    I agree, the way OP is using voting isn't really what it's intended for and the "mark read on scroll" is a better option for what they want.

    However, what damage are they doing? They are basically giving encouragement to everyone to keep posting. If the worry is bandwidth, Piefed is only at ~5k and the threadiverse at ~40k. If bandwidth is a problem now, how will the platform scale to 400k or 4M active users?

    I would upvote your and Nusm's comments, because they contribute to the discussion, but I already hit my limit for the day (took under an hour). If you want more of my perspective. OpenStars and Squirrel also provide their viewpoint on the situation in the post (I don't know how to specifically link to my comments so you got a link to someone who replied to me).

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