What is the history of @SaneGoatiSwear ? He is hated now, but there must have been a time when he wased loved by all. Try to 'member! (AskVoat)

submitted ago by ExpertShitposter

I never noticed the user SaneGoatiSwear before the v/videos debacle. Could have been due to my limited exploration of voat. However, after the v/videos debacle i see he every day in every thread, and anything he says gets -2 to -8 ccp. Despite what seems to be a daily barrage of -100ccp for the last month or so, he still has close to 10 000 ccp.

This means there was a time when everybody loved him! So what happened? At what point did he completely lose his mind? At first, to me he seemed like a funny advanced troll, while everybody else was pissed. But now it seems like he just lost it completely. Not as in oh look, he is a SJW, but legitimate insanity on his part. Like antiracist level of insanity.

I still think its funny but help me understand. Try to 'member!

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Fahrvergnaked ago

I appreciate what he does, even if sometimes he goes overboard with his presentation, I think it is important to be critical and skeptical and challenge accepted norms because you never know when the majority might be wrong.

All in all he's always been a contributor to Voat, whether of quality content or annoying content is up to the individual to decide. Regardless I appreciate his efforts.

I have been on this site around the same amount of time, I agree with your observation. I think Sane is one of the best watchdogs on this site, bar none. He has been at the forefront of privacy and free speech involvement, he's committed to free speech, he's committed to this site, and he's not afraid to attack people who he thinks are threatening its values.
My only concern is that he has gotten much more rabid in his disagreements and how quickly and easily he decides that other people's free speech is anti-voat. Being called a shill for disagreeing with someone is highly frustrating, and is a very abuse-prone way out of an argument. Other than an hour or day old account with obviously shill history, a differing opinion is simply that... a differing opinion, and is the most attractive aspect of voat (IMO).

The tendency of people to call out opposing opinions as shilling is the secondary and most damaging effect of shilling to begin with, and unless there is rock solid evidence, doing so only damages the possibility for free speech.

Since the pizzagate exodus I have to admit I check user info a lot more, but a short account means nothing without the corroborating data. We as a userbase cannot afford to discount every opinion that we dislike because of the existence of shills.