I have been here for a good while, originally OzarkMoutainGoat. I don't comment much anymore, I just lurk. This site is basically dead, it has been so for a while. It was dead from get-go. The admin hates the user base and a substantial subsection of the user base goes way out of their way to be unpalatable to anyone but the initiated.
That's part of the point, voat isn't by default a welcoming place, you have to earn your right to be here. When the community goes full 14880tard thats the immune system of voat reacting to foreigners. If by some chance the new users manage to tolerate the full blast and just ignore it or tolerate it, they happen to be of the few who have the right to be on voat.
However, what I dont like is when users go to subs and try and harass them there and then get banned, and then cry about it to try and get some brigading going. That should be curtailed. I guess making the CCPs and the other thing local or per sub could solve many of the issues. Including some of the voat farming.
thats bullshit... that would kill the first page... a thing what wouldnt bother me.,.. cuase thsi format is shit in its essence but thats another story...
When the community goes full 14880tard thats the immune system of voat reacting to foreigners.
The "community" is in a perpetual state of going full 14880tard at any given point of time, though. Some niche subverses aside, Voat has already turned into the right-wing equivalent of fucking NeoGaf. If you call that an immune system, the patient has died from an allergic shock years ago.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard all year. Last I checked Voat asked two things, don't to illegal things and don't prevent others from speaking. Everyone is welcome, those actions are not.
The downvote system limits you to 10 posts per day when you are in the negatives. You may be put in the negatives by anyone (meaning any user, meaning tens of millions of bots count be created to push a narrative), at which point you can’t speak truth anymore. This, admittedly, is a far larger problem on Reddit than here. But the problem exists here.
Nah, I'm just saying I generally don't add to the conversation unless I'm sure I want to say it, and a 10 post per day punishment is only a punishment if you live on here. Which I clearly do not.
There's a lot of people out there that would like to take advantage of an open platform and use the freedoms it offers to limit other's freedoms. "Earning the right to be here" just means proving that limiting others isn't one's intent. The immune system around here ferrets that out by pushing buttons to see if newcomers can live and let live or not.
There's no reason to deliberately be offensive to most people. Claiming it's to test them to see if they're 100% OK with free speech is like a Liberal saying if you're not comfortable with gays butt-fucking each other in public and throwing aids blood on you when you're in public in you're a real Progressive.
It's done because the weak willed faggots that get butt hurt over it run off back to reddit with their tails between their legs instead of trying to bring us all down to their level. That's literally it. We don't hate them or do it to vent, it's just an immune system reaction to keep the good alive here.
I understand the immune system, I helped to create it.
However, what I dont like is when users go to subs and try and harass them there and then get banned, and then cry about it to try and get some brigading going.
This is the part they call innocent shitposting and it is anything but innocent.
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Monteblanc ago
I have been here for a good while, originally OzarkMoutainGoat. I don't comment much anymore, I just lurk. This site is basically dead, it has been so for a while. It was dead from get-go. The admin hates the user base and a substantial subsection of the user base goes way out of their way to be unpalatable to anyone but the initiated.
Pawn ago
That's part of the point, voat isn't by default a welcoming place, you have to earn your right to be here. When the community goes full 14880tard thats the immune system of voat reacting to foreigners. If by some chance the new users manage to tolerate the full blast and just ignore it or tolerate it, they happen to be of the few who have the right to be on voat.
However, what I dont like is when users go to subs and try and harass them there and then get banned, and then cry about it to try and get some brigading going. That should be curtailed. I guess making the CCPs and the other thing local or per sub could solve many of the issues. Including some of the voat farming.
Pissant ago
Start naming these groups, they can't write us all off as SaneGoat.
Pissant ago
I wonder what you said that merited seven downvoats.
Pawn ago
Probably the fact that per sub CPP and submission points would negate shilling advantages.
Schreiber ago
I agree with local CCP per sub.
SparkS ago
thats bullshit... that would kill the first page... a thing what wouldnt bother me.,.. cuase thsi format is shit in its essence but thats another story...
ArsCortica ago
The "community" is in a perpetual state of going full 14880tard at any given point of time, though. Some niche subverses aside, Voat has already turned into the right-wing equivalent of fucking NeoGaf. If you call that an immune system, the patient has died from an allergic shock years ago.
Rakosman ago
That's the stupidest thing I've heard all year. Last I checked Voat asked two things, don't to illegal things and don't prevent others from speaking. Everyone is welcome, those actions are not.
Tallest_Skil ago
The downvote system limits you to 10 posts per day when you are in the negatives. You may be put in the negatives by anyone (meaning any user, meaning tens of millions of bots count be created to push a narrative), at which point you can’t speak truth anymore. This, admittedly, is a far larger problem on Reddit than here. But the problem exists here.
BaldMiscreant ago
Honestly can't recall the last time I had 10 things to say to you morons in one day.
Tallest_Skil ago
So leave and never come back. We don’t give a shit about you as a person.
BaldMiscreant ago
Nah, I'm just saying I generally don't add to the conversation unless I'm sure I want to say it, and a 10 post per day punishment is only a punishment if you live on here. Which I clearly do not.
YugeDick ago
There's a lot of people out there that would like to take advantage of an open platform and use the freedoms it offers to limit other's freedoms. "Earning the right to be here" just means proving that limiting others isn't one's intent. The immune system around here ferrets that out by pushing buttons to see if newcomers can live and let live or not.
fluhthreeex ago
There's no reason to deliberately be offensive to most people. Claiming it's to test them to see if they're 100% OK with free speech is like a Liberal saying if you're not comfortable with gays butt-fucking each other in public and throwing aids blood on you when you're in public in you're a real Progressive.
475677 ago
It's done because the weak willed faggots that get butt hurt over it run off back to reddit with their tails between their legs instead of trying to bring us all down to their level. That's literally it. We don't hate them or do it to vent, it's just an immune system reaction to keep the good alive here.
BackAsswards ago
Best way I've seen it put. Voat will always be limited if that's how every new member is treated.
Monteblanc ago
I understand the immune system, I helped to create it.
This is the part they call innocent shitposting and it is anything but innocent.