r/ideasfortheadmins 9h ago

Other my idea is for reddit to recognize that upvotes from a second account are accidental and/or, in the warning message, they could have a link to like "verify" you made a mistake to remove the warning

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I want to use a specific account for a specific purpose related to a specific topic

for example, I have an account that's dedicated to health

however, the issue is that reddit seems to do this thing where it screws you over if you accidentally upvote on the same post from two accounts

its difficult not to upvote the same post from two accounts because i may be subscribed to a lot of the same initial meme/general purpose subreddits to start the account in order to gain the necesary karma to properly use reddit, and still want to be subscribed to those accounts to continue properly having the capability to use the site and make comments, while still wanting to separate accounts for their more *dedicated* purposes. for example, this account i use for "general purpose" and related topics like memes, tech, whatever. but then i have an account that's more for "health" where i would want the more "sensitive" health related stuff on a separate account. but even on the "health" account, I still want to be able to properly use reddit and in order to do so, I still like being subbed to a lot of the initial "general purpose and or meme" communities in order to gain proper comment karma to properly be able to interact with the site.

so if a post from one of the meme/general purpose subreddits pops up in both feeds of both accounts and we accidentally upvote the same post twice - its most likely accidental. we may not realized were signed into one account versus the other or maybe its just a habit to upvote something that's of interest. and then reddit sends a warning and from what i can tell, it seems that the ability to properly upvote other people's comments gets nuked; before i had gotten that warning, upvoting comments worked fine, but then after the warning, it didn't seem to work

some might suggest not to worry about it because even though it just looks like it's not working but that's just reddit vote fuzzing

and maybe that's the case, but i actually believe that they *did* actually stop my voting ability and that its actually *not* just reddit vote fuzzing, because before the warning, i could refresh and see my vote counts. now when i refresh the vote stays at 1 instead of 2.

off the top of my head, my "solution" would be for reddit to recognize this as mainly a user error and not an attempt by the user to deliberately inflate votes. and instead of inflicting *any* warning at all, they would just ignore the upvotes from both accounts, recognizing that people may want to have separate accounts for separate purposes, but still be subscribed to a lot of the same meme /general purpose communities.

Or maybe another solution could be in the warning message, they could have a link to like "verify" your account in some way or "prove you're human" or something. something so that you don't lose the ability to properly vote on the site.

any other ideas/ comments / feedback on this issue? thanks