Can you tell me a bit about the important history of Voat? (AskVoat)

submitted ago by AlexanderMorose13

Recently, someone told me that I didn't know about the history of Voat prior to the period where many people joined during the Q rush. I actually joined during the Q rush without even knowing about the Q drops at all. There were some important names mentioned that I didn't know about either.

It would greatly help me if we could summarize the important history of Voat and the users that made this site what it is for the new people who are getting ready to join this community. If anything, I'd like to learn more about my home away from home.

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sakuramboo ago

> Originally called Whoaverse

> Subs were called Subverses (still called that today)

> Atko was original owner

> Name changed to Voat around the time of the first major mass censorship of Reddit

> Atko stepped down and Puttitout took over

> Lots of server problems and DDoS attacks throughout the years

> Members of /v/Linux helped Puttitout migrate many parts of Voat to Linux to help cut costs

> Each major migration wave gets met with our hazing, if you survive, you can stay

> We apparently have some secret investor that no one wants to talk about (most guess its a glow in the dark)

> Canary is died earlier this year

CognitiveDissident5 ago

You left out the secret investor whose identity we were told we didn't need to know.

sakuramboo ago

> We apparently have some secret investor that no one wants to talk about (most guess its a glow in the dark)

Second to last line...

CognitiveDissident5 ago

Ah, my apologies.

Azamuku ago

Amalek left for your sins.

Not_Your_Normal_Goat ago

Can you explain the Canary in the coal mine to me? What was it and how did it die?

sakuramboo ago

Here is the canary. The canary is to be updated monthly. If any of those requests or gag orders come in, the canary stops being updated. While the G can prevent you from talking, they can't force you to lie or make you update the canary. So, when a few months go by and the canary isn't updated, it lets the users know they something happened.

When you go to the link of the canary, you can see on the right hand side when the last update happened. Which means it's been 6 months since there was an update, meaning we were sent either a gag order or private information request.

Not_Your_Normal_Goat ago

I'm on mobile and cand see the last edit date. But thanks for the explanation.

sakuramboo ago

Yes you can. On the left hand side is a three line menu. Click that and a side window will slide open and you can see the information.

Redpilleveryone ago

October 2016 Wikileaks/pizzagate migration was big.

Gamer gate before that. Look it up. Worth understanding.

Wowbagger ago

You should mention some high volume and entertaining users such as HPOP

zxcvzxcv ago

How did the canary work, and how do you know it died?

sakuramboo ago

Official Canary

On the right hand side you can see the Last Edit Time of 6 months ago on 4/25/2019 12:04:41 AM

Also, Putt said in a post that he was contacted and that there could be legal issues from it here.

zxcvzxcv ago

Well, that would explain why the content on voat has gone downhill the last 6 months. I bet the smart goats abandoned ship.

AmericanJew2 ago

You forgot about @Highly_Paid_Orgy_Pro, @Amalek and his hairy ass, and @CANCELCATFACTS

FreeSpeechWarriors ago

Remember how we kept getting out hosting dropped. First Germany, then Switzerland, etc.

You shouldn't omit that part...

You left out a lot of important stuff.

Deplorablepoetry ago

I like having a sober dude like you around..., makes getting drunk ...sobering

sirRantsalot ago

I haven't seen any good doggerel from you lately!

sakuramboo ago

I'm on-call with my work this week, so I have to stay sober...

NotHereForPizza ago

Investor is PIA...

Good God normies are so blind.

Now tell them who @zook is.

HeebyKneegrow ago

I first came to voat back when everyone was mad at Reddit for having a female CEO or some shit. I was flabbergasted by the language on here, open racism, but more importantly I was impressed at how hard the users on this site fought back

Earlier this year I quit reddit because it was astroturfed like a motherfucker and became a click farm. I still think this place is a toxic mess but I like it because no one here is holding back and you can say nigger

Azamuku ago

If the nigger be glowing, the goats be a knowing.

clubberlang ago

Hell to the fuck yea motherfucker welcome you kike fucking austistic asshole

ThirteenthZodiac ago

I was flabbergasted by the language on here, open racism

You sound like a fucking faggot.

Go the fuck back to reddit.

HeebyKneegrow ago

Nah I'm desensitized to you niggers

heretolearn ago

what's toxic about this place?

PaulNeriAustralia ago

what? You mean apart from me?

HeebyKneegrow ago

Let's be honest, there's a lot of open discussions here but there are some actual h8rs

I'm ok with reading their stuff because I'm tired of censorship.

totallynotFBI ago

The groupthink

chemlord11 ago

No one here likes kiks so it gets labeled toxic to scare the other goys from here

Plavonica ago

There's still a lot of shills, glowniggerciaplants, and many attempts to start purity spirals. A lot of the info can get people down as well, so they tend to lash out often if they spend too much time here. But there's not a lot of other places you can post to and not get insta-banned for most of the views here. Even the fairly normie-level stuff like not enjoying the current (jewish-led) communist push to destroy the world.

Tallest_Skil ago

There's still a lot of shills

Voat is not a website for truth, after all.

glowniggerciaplants

See above.

and many attempts to start purity spirals

Learn what you’re saying.

A lot of the info can get people down as well

“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” ~ Ecclesiastes 1:18

itsALWAYStheBANKERS ago

All the Mossad agents

Gigglestick ago

You not submitting enough OC you dumb faggot

TheSolutionist ago

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - some Anon and Dan Bilzerian

21135437? ago

Also, I can poop here freely.

sirRantsalot ago

i.p. freely

hang_em_high ago

What were all the major migrations? I know FPH was before I got here. I came around the time of the Pizzagate stuff. MDE after that and Q subs.

TheSolutionist ago

I seriously quit Reddit when they banned mde. Now I only visit t_d there, because they literally banned any fucking edgy sub that existed and everything else is just boring.

drj2 ago

mde was one of the only ones that seamlessly fit in to voat

Maggotfeast ago

Cringeanarchy also, they posted all the same content as vote

crazy_eyes ago

those cucks did not seamlessly fit in

hang_em_high ago

MDE was really one of the only good fit migrations that I remember. Unfortunately the sub seems pretty slow now. TD banned me for criticizing "take the guns first" and bump stock stuff. They were censoring hundreds of comments that day. I never once went back after that bullshit.

Saproliteone ago

The only other active MDE community I can think of out there was on 8chan for a while until they went under. But they pretty much just whined about how voat mde people jewpost too much and how Sam is a pedophile sex addict who jewed Charls out of book money and has to pay Nick to make appearances on his Gumroad show.

TheSolutionist ago

TD mods bend the knee to live another day on the platform. Their heart is at the right place. They are good mods.

Hello_world88 ago

I got banned from t_d permanently for talking shit about muzlims. They’re fucking cucks

Maggotfeast ago

That's weird, Muslims are the only ones I ever saw td talk shit about frequently

Hello_world88 ago

I know I was seriously taken aback. there may have been some slight inciting of violence towards them as well

AlexanderMorose13 ago

Fuck Islam. You were only telling the truth.

hang_em_high ago

Bullshit. That had nothing to do with something that would get the sub banned. That was a basic criticism of a Trump statement that even the libs and MSM were criticizing. They allow ZERO criticism of Trump there. Mods are censors like every other part of reddit.

sakuramboo ago

Not in any specific order...

> Ellen Pao's first iron fist

> Gamergate

> Pizzagate

> FPH and that group of subreddits

> T_D getting quarantined (was temporary, most went back)

> There were at least two batches of "racist" subreddits that got banned

Whenever there's a new batch of subreddit bans, there's heavy activity on /v/MeanwhileOnReddit that showcases who got banned.

crazy_eyes ago

dont forget the incels, but they all left

thecajunone ago

And very recently all black pilled, incel subs, clown world, fren etc subs were banned

And watchredditdie had a very blatant hostile takeover

european ago

first racist sub was probaly /r/coontown. They came and set up shop at /r/niggers @eagleshigh . Then /r/european was probably the next racist sub.

antiracist ago

Member when I posted black on blonde porn as the banner of v/niggers and it stayed like that for like a week? I member.

It was lulz.

@eagleshigh @bojangles @sarmegahhikkitha

european ago

You are @eugenix right?

Antiracist10 ago

No, I'm antiracist.

european ago

Who is antiracist though?

antiracist3 ago

Antiracist is my original name. I only use alts with a number after them, up to 10, because faggot tyrant @PuttItOut only allows my accounts one comment post a day, because pedophile @Crensch and his already army downvoted my accounts to oblivion because he hates free speech. Also, Crensch is an idiot who loves loli porn and child sex dolls.

@eagleshigh @bojangles @sarmegahhikkitha

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european ago

How did you manage to change the headers of /v/niggers. That is why I said eugenix. The pinging you do is weird tio

Antiracist4 ago

I never imagined eugenix or amalek would be the same person.

I wasn't saying you did. I was saying that Voaters have accused me of being other Voaters, who I am not.

How did you manage to change the headers of /v/niggers.

I was a mod.

Why are you anti racist?

To provide checks and balances to the extremist racist echo chamber. Also, there was this cartoon called Antiracist Hitler that I liked.

The pinging of bojangles and eagleshigh you do is weird too.

@Bojangles is like the only person on Voat I like. @gabara seems cool too.

@eagleshigh was my original nemesis, but we worked things out, and he became my philosophy student. Although, he isn't really that great of a student, as he doesn't read or reply on time, and it has been years and he still hasn't learned elementary logic.

@SarMegahhikkitha was for a time my kike master, until I eventually became convinced that he is an illogical and immoral cult member misologist who acts in bad faith.

Because I have so many accounts, and I don't expect them to read my comment histories of my accounts, I ping them instead.

Have you ever met Joshua Goldberg?

No.

SarMegahhikkitha ago

"Gabara seems cool." Gabara is an account shared by SRS members and bots.

"Sar sucks," says the guy who has gone so far away from the truth that he thinks a bot that posts random nonsense is "cool", and spends all his time on a fake website showing off how much smarter he is than the dregs of society while pinging random people, leading everyone to think he's just some schizophrenic. I'll take that as a complement.

european ago

Who made you a mod?

european ago

I never imagined eugenix or amalek would be the same person. Why are you anti racist?

eagleshigh ago

what's up man. it's been a while

Maggotfeast ago

I came when they shut down cringeanarchy

HeebyKneegrow ago

I came here after they got rid of watchpeopledie

Maltherian1 ago

The T-D was the most humorous. They thought they could takeover. They lasted about three weeks if I remember. Freedom is not for the weak.

Rellik88 ago

We forced them to donate to server time too.

CantBuySkills ago

Agreed... they also thought they were frontline members of the great meme war. Psh. Faggots.

Plavonica ago

Freedom requires the strength of an individualist who works with others to ensure said freedom.

markrod420 ago

Our ability to withstand significant invasion using the voat imune system of literally just calling people niggerfaggots and kikes has worked stunningly well.

AdmiralEnchilada ago

Fuck you nigger Hitler

markrod420 ago

Ahh im so triggered now i have to run off and tell the voat thought police. Now where o where are they......

checks-out ago

Can you ELI5 why that's an immune system for voat

Redpilleveryone ago

Fuck off you dirty nigger.

TrialsAndTribulation ago

I had a feeling Bobby Hill would grow up to be a Voat user.

AlexanderMorose13 ago

He would grow up to be a drag queen kid or a dead body. This is Bobby Hill we're talking about, if he's smart enough to get to Voat, he's smart enough to realize that he needs to leave his parents as fast as possible.

sirRantsalot ago

a cheerful FUCK YOU to you my friend! I love voat.

markrod420 ago

Every time a large crowd comes to voat they are usually of a quantity to risk destroying the environment of voat. If every migration had come here unfettered voat would have been converted to another progressive circle jerk ages ago. But because we scare off newfags in huge volumes we maintain our core culture. Every person here can tolerate being called a nigger a faggot a kike a shill and every other name under the sun. If you havent been called those things you havent participated much yet. You dont have to agree with everything. I was openly anti racist my first like 6 months or longer here. I never got downvoated into limitations on my activity because i never tried to tell anyone "you cant say that because muh feelings" and i never exhibited emotionally manipulative conversation derailing shill tactics. It makes sure we dont become infested with censorship. Shills sure, tons. But not censorship. We say what we want and if you cant handle it you can go get goodified nigger :)

heretolearn ago

proper summary.

AlexanderMorose13 ago

I came here with an open mind. That was a fucking bad mistake. And an awesome one. No ragrets. Not even a letter.

ChiCom ago

This is the only group that understands hate is being (((redirected))) from where it naturally belongs to where it does not.

sirRantsalot ago

my sentiments exactly

markrod420 ago

Lol well said.

Maltherian1 ago

I came with the fatpeoplehate ban. Being part of an invasion and watching others has been fun and interesting. Voat’s immune system is amazing.

ibepokey ago

i wasn't a big fan of FPH, but when plebbit started banhammering, i was GTFO.

also, fuck you niggerfaggot. we woulda been banned for that, fatass.

love me some voat.

markrod420 ago

Same. Took me like a year to stop arguing with reality. But you cite enough of it and ill listen. And you cant offend me.