The news that voat has a new "partner" has me nervous. I'm making contingency plans in the event that the partner turns out to insist on some sort of "curation," or if it seems like they're here to use voat as some sort of honeypot. If that happens I would like to remove every trace of everything I've ever posted to voat, but before writing my own script I wanted to check and see if this is work that has already been done.
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SaneGoatOySwear ago
You seriously think I'm SaneGoat? That's disappointing Kev, you're smarter than that.
Anyways, you've done absolutely nothing to downplay what Putt did by demodding someone for zero reason.
dontdoxxmefaggots ago
the reason was the mod didn't trust putt, so why should putt trust him?
SaneGoatOySwear ago
Give me a compelling reason why we should trust a stranger on the Internet who could be literally anyone. For all we know Putt is actually several people, operating out of three letter agencies. I'm not saying that's the case, but it's 100% a possibility. There's all sorts of strange stuff on Voat, just look at the financing, which now is apparently not an issue because we have a partner, but up until what a few days ago, no one knew how Voat was even operating. Putt said there was some bitcoin donations left over from what, over a year ago?
All that said, we shouldn't be irrationally paranoid, but we shouldn't blindly trust one another either. Having a plan incase shit hits the fan is not being irrationally paranoid. We should, every single one of us, consider what we would do if Voat was taken down or taken over.
And frankly, Putt shouldn't expect us to blindly trust him. If you were operating Voat, would you act that way?
dontdoxxmefaggots ago
putt has earned my trust form years of doing the right thing and never selling out voat despite countless opportunities to do so
SaneGoatOySwear ago
That you're aware of. For all we know this information has been being used to fine tune psychological practices aimed at making us all apathetic. Contain us, let us vent, but don't allow us to get so angry that we actually go out there in the real world and effect change.
We simply have no idea what Putts true intentions are, but if his intentions were pure... I think he would have understood and respected Bob3333s stance. What Putt just announced to us is a major development for this website, in an era where websites like Voat are routinely killed not saved.
Honestly man, skepticism is healthy. Bob wasn't being overly paranoid, or preaching doom and gloom, he was just wanting to be prepared for a worst case scenario. That's something more people should do.
dontdoxxmefaggots ago
and what was the consequence? he had an unpaid garbageman's job taken away from him
boo fucking hoo