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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PuttItOut ago
Just delete your account.
We wipe all your data, including content replacement, when a user deletes their account (make sure you pay attention to the options as you can leave content or anonymize it too).
It makes me nervous that you are a janitor on a system sub and are posting submissions like this.
lets_get_hyyerr ago
FYI (and I'm sure you know), a good 40% of janitors and mods shouldn't be janitors and mods. That 40% accounts for a solid 25% of the issues with the Voat ecosystem right now. The other 75% of course being financing and essentially everything else you detailed in your most recent global sticky.
Voat is still growing and the poor moderators/janitors who help run the website are hindering it's growth, albeit by a fraction but enough to notice.
PuttItOut ago
@Cynabuns says the same thing. She should be the mod manager.
I'm curious though what you'd do to fix the mod problems. I think we agree it's an issue, but what is a solution?
GoodGodKirk ago
A voting system for those who actually participate in the sub? This would disallow lurkers and voting bots from participation and allow the community to put a bad mod on the hook.
Sometimes long standing community members aren’t the right people for the job, or they become power drunk, or are just techtards.