Remove inactive account votes

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if my understanding is correct about how votes work, they are to gauge interest in the tool suggestion. inactive account votes skew that number.

For example the CoMaps suggestion (I am only using this as an example as its the first thread I saw today, no shade intended) has 8 inactive account votes, meaning over 20% of the votes for that topic are from users who have opted out of participating in this community.

an aside

honestly I think anon accounts in general shouldn’t be able to vote as there is already a loophole where users can double vote using an anon account and their regular accout, then let there anon account expire and vote again. I doubt this is truly being abused that much though.

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I don’t think this votes do anything though. And this is not that type of forum to be actually abused that much.

While you are technically correct, I think discussion here is more valuable than votes

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If thats the case, voting should just be disabled then.

of course although not really relevant. I am not asking to remove inactive account comments.

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That doesn’t make sense. They are accounts like others. Many great users might only log in once a year, but their input is valuable.

What would make more sense is limiting votes to accounts which > x replies, to limit spam voting.

But I don’t think we have seen the issue of spam really. So a solution looking for a problem.

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It is not bound on replies but i believe on trust level so kinda like that already.

Anyway we mostly use it to see what we should pick up to decide on, see what you guess think but isn’t some resolution or referendum.

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Agreed.

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From my understanding, the issue is not actually “inactive account” votes remaining, but rather votes of deleted/anonimized users remaining in the vote count.

I can see the argument that since this person behind this account has decided to fully leave the Privacy Guides community, or the account otherwise needed to be deleted, that removing suggestion votes made by that account may help to better reflect the true, current intent and desire of the community on a given topic/suggestion.

With all of that being said, I don’t currently see much issue with these “inactive account” votes remaining, as voting on a topic does not guarantee anything beyond the closer consideration of the issue by the Privacy Guides team.[1]

  1. As far as I know, I may be wrong on this though. ↩︎

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to clarify

is what I meant. Sorry for the bad wording.

thats kind of the reason i made the post. If posts with more votes are likely to get more attention then those votes should be from active users.

I am getting the sense from @ph00lt0 that votes don’t matter enough anyway. Which is fine although I question the point then.

possibly, I was not trying to imply its some big problem to begin with so it feels a bit unfair to mark it that way.

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