/r/gunsarecool on that "other" site is an absolute disaster of numbskullish garbage from people who hate guns. Fine, I don't care if that is their opinion, they can be jerks over there, but why does HenryCorp get to come to voat, steal a subverse from people who were just minding our own business, and ruin /v/gunsarecool?
At the very least, our subverse should be returned to us, and HenryCorp should be banned.
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something_went_wrong ago
What about instead focusing on making a positive contribution to /v/guns and ignoring the obvious troll cave that is /v/gunsarecool? No need for a 1-to-1 match of sub names against that other shit site. And Voat is still small enough where users can collectively reject and ignore a shitty verse like /v/gunsarecool and others made by the joint HenryCorp marketing team until rendered irrelevant.
I don't know if you have some sort of history with a "gunsarcool" sub here or there and got burned. But seriously, check out the already established /v/guns instead.
beren ago
Thanks, and you are right, I should just move on. When I joined voat, it wasn't like it is today. Even the sidebar said "Not this time, turkeys!" which I found hilarious. We had great content and everyone was nice, but now it's like this. A fucking wasteland where one asshole berates and bans anyone who doesn't agree with him.
I guess the point I was trying to make was summed up by @Porphyrogennetos, but I guess it doesn't matter, I'll just let it go.
something_went_wrong ago
Well, I don't think it's quite that simple, and you should wait a minute before you agree with me. I think Voat is still small enough and has options available to users to combat mod abuse unlike that other shit site. Options such as more easily moving on to a better subverse and being able to freely air grievances on /v/whatever or /v/askvoat like you did prompting awareness and discussion.
On that other site, people tend to say "well why don't you create your own sub" without understanding that is futile there. One can't simply expect several hundred thousand users pull up stakes from one sub and move to another. /r/technology vs all the other non-flourishing offshoots created in protest against their mod abuses as an example.
I think it's important to keep the censorship discussion going as you have done by making this post. If Voat grows so too will the issue of censorship. So continuing the discussion about this issue now and keeping track of the problem for historical purposes is important, IMHO.
beren ago
I've messaged @Atko again and let him know that censorship is happening on voat and that I don't think someone like @HenryCorp should be allowed to mod on this site at all. I think he should still be allowed to participate, but I think he has proven he is not fit to mod and I hope that @Atko see that and acts. Beyond that, I'm not going to spend anymore time on this, it is not my site, and I might just leave again and go somewhere else where this can't happen.