Now that I had some time to think about what you wrote:
about the brigade, I believe it's a natural thing. Putt is developing features for the site, as far as we know he doesn't get anything from it except headaches, so I guess this is people saying "keep going" to him and "don't be so ungrateful" to the critics. We're all people here (well, there's a lot of bots) and a quick and sometimes inadequate response is not rare among humans.
About the free speech thing, maybe I'm misreading, but it looks to me that he's not saying it's not important. He's saying it'll not make voat grow by itself. Because most of society don't know its value or just don't care.
Now if the discussion is about wanting voat to grow or not, well, this is where controversy will show up. I would like to see voat growing. I don't care if leftists create subverses here, I don't think they should be raided of involved in drama. I would like to see subverses about any legal subject being tolerated here. The website is exactly like I want, but a great part of the users don't want this. I understand their reasons, they got expelled from the rest of the internet and they don't want the censors to get power here. I don't even know if they're right or not. Maybe the "voat filter" will keep voat free of a power grab. I caught myself being part of it one or two times. But when I think about it, my conclusion is that voat would be better with more people in, more subverses with non political content, and even with people with liberal views, why not? Maybe all the posts would end with 0 votes.
Well, if you decide to fork voat, think about a site with no points at all. Threads are ordered by number of comments or by bumps (maybe both). This would stop vote brigades. An anti flooding system would be necessary.
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chags ago
Now that I had some time to think about what you wrote:
Now if the discussion is about wanting voat to grow or not, well, this is where controversy will show up. I would like to see voat growing. I don't care if leftists create subverses here, I don't think they should be raided of involved in drama. I would like to see subverses about any legal subject being tolerated here. The website is exactly like I want, but a great part of the users don't want this. I understand their reasons, they got expelled from the rest of the internet and they don't want the censors to get power here. I don't even know if they're right or not. Maybe the "voat filter" will keep voat free of a power grab. I caught myself being part of it one or two times. But when I think about it, my conclusion is that voat would be better with more people in, more subverses with non political content, and even with people with liberal views, why not? Maybe all the posts would end with 0 votes.
Well, if you decide to fork voat, think about a site with no points at all. Threads are ordered by number of comments or by bumps (maybe both). This would stop vote brigades. An anti flooding system would be necessary.