Today I finally had some time to catch up on long-overdue anti-vote-manipulation mechanism which voat was lacking.

As of right now, whenever you cast a vote on a comment or submission, your IP is recorded along with the id of the comment or submission you voted on.

Not recording IP addresses allowed people to create multiple voat accounts and abuse our voting system in order to cast multiple votes on the same comment or submission.

For now, IP addresses are stored in our database and we will most likely be dropping the IP addresses from our records 1 month after the vote is cast.

Please note - if you upvote- or downvote a submission or a comment by mistake, your IP address is recorded. However, if you click the voting arrow once more (to reset your vote), your IP address will be removed from the database.

Edit: all recorded IP addresses in voting logs have now been deleted from our database and IP logging mechanism is now hashing IP addresses before storing them.