Hi guys, just want to quickly provide a website change.

Since the achievement system has been pushed out, we noticed some users are creating new bronze members and upvoting themselves to game the upvote achievement awards.

When we first found out, we simply removed those spam accounts and removed the upvotes, hoping the users will realize that we are on top of this and will stop. Instead, they just created more and made it worse.

Rather than removing the upvote achievement and the awards to punish everyone else that is simply participating in the community and gaining upvotes organically, we have removed the Bronze member's ability to upvote and downvote. This won't affect their entry in the giveaway from January, and we will also not require Bronze members to upvote giveaways to enter future giveaways.

I know this might suck for Bronze members as they cannot show their appreciation to getting their questions answered. Hopefully everyone can understand.