What can be done? VITAL CHART proves that VOAT IS DYING and 33% of people and postings LEFT in the last 12 months! WHY is voat DYING? How can we make voat grow or stop dying? This is dire! Help!
Lower IQ users on voat.co (I think of them as "normies") will downvote the facts below but...
VOAT IS DYING! 30% less participation!
I feel very sad at the following numbers :
| Month |
Submissions |
Comments |
| January |
60,381 |
631,360 |
| February |
56,315 |
574,126 |
| March |
63,072 |
668,687 |
| April |
57,396 |
588,857 |
| May |
60,095 |
592,558 |
| June |
53,702 |
541,785 |
| July |
51,817 |
486,214 |
| August |
45,524 |
433,146 |
| September |
42,619 |
375,510 |
| October |
43,528 |
370,285 |
| November |
46,996 |
397,677 |
| December |
44,530 |
400,020 |
| Total |
625,975 |
6,060,225 |
Graph: Posts per month
Graph: Posts per day
source : https://voat.co/v/VoatStatistics/3587597
Some blame the paranoid feeling when the site says "what did YOU do?" and think voat.co is blaming them and blocking them in timeout perhaps.
Over half the higher IQ people have possibly left voat, as such people actively flee perceived groups of "normies" in psychology papers and books covering high IQ.
That flight will always happen regardless without a regular influx of preferentially higher IQ people.
Voat.co is very high IQ now, but it was much higher, years ago.
Evidence?
I say it based solely on the actual scientists in the far past commenting in v/Science and the actual highly skilled engineers commenting in v/Technology in the far past.
The fleeing poindexters and smartypants creates a death spiral that chases off more and more eggheads.
It used to be called "MySpace" effect, or the "Digg" effect, and now termed the "Reddit" effect. High IQ people migrate to web sites offering higher intellectual discourse.
The_Donald exodus from Reddit to here could have quadrupled voat or far far more, but toxic attacks via gay male porn flooded v/TheDonald, and they went and created a "censoring" site 10 times larger than voat called https://thedonald.win/
v/QRV, v/GreatAwakening, and v/TheAwakening brought up IQ level a bunch, but it could have been more if less overall fights and cliques.
Toxic anti-Q anti-"boomer" anti-Trump rhetoric by disenchanters has its effect in killing voat too.
It is common among primates and humans to gang up and bond together tormenting chosen group members.
The relentless attacks on Q by older goats here is unwarranted, though sometimes funny in the NPC context this year.
A few of the older goats seem to enjoy antagonizing "QTards" "Boomers" "Political heads" "Qoomers" "Knowitalls" "Qfags" etc that were flooding into their formerly semi-static space.
A token tiny percentage of Q members on v/QRV could not handle "niggerfaggot" and "kike" but for all I know, they were voat false flag plants to draw anger towards Q. I myslef had Q subversive accounts created on standby.
v/milliondollarextreme came and then went, as other reddit failed migrations dwindled.
Well I hope everyone is happy with keeping voat.co smaller and stagnating... in fact SHRINKING!
What are ideas to get users to voat without accidentally letting any real world people know you use voat personally (doxx risk). Shill the link on other sites? Shill voat.co?
I bet the ratio of CIA glowniggers to non-glowniggers is now at an all time high on voat. Hello Mr. Fed !
NOTHING else out there is as good as voat.co, or offers true FREE SPEECH as voat. I like voat.co as much as anyone, but I can read a death spiral chart.
Voat.co is DYING!
That data in that chart is legitimate and REAL.
Other sites might be enticing users away, that do not mind semi-censoring pig admins that infest these :
https://boards.4chan.org/pol/
https://www.16chan.xyz/pol/
https://www.dailystormer.name
https://endchan.org
https://nein<<removethis>>chan.com
https://notabug.io/t/all
https://nab.cx (light censorship for front page only of https://notabug.io/t/all)
https://phuks.co/
https://poal.co/
https://vnnforum.com/
http://niggermania.net/forum/ (good discussion of events on http://newnation.org/)
Who knows? All I know is the numbers in the charts do not lie. Voat.co lost 30% of its messages per day in one year of steady decline.
HOW CAN VOAT get back the 33% missing users?
HOW CAN WE BUILD UP VOAT.co?
If voat.co keeps dying from high IQ people fleeing, and Share Blue invading, I dislike the other semi-free-speech sites enough, that I feel I will just read it for v/Funny and v/News posts, not comments, and hate the universe.
THIS SUCKS SO BAD, and its so sad.
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Rasimov ago
I've had an account since alpha. I barely comment since for the most part there is rarely anything worth commenting on. It's just the same low effort shit over and over again, and a good portion of it is easily shown to be wrong if you took two seconds to google it.
Also, even though it doesn't seem that hard to do, reaching the vote threshold to have an impact on the content is hard to reach when it seems like the vast majority of the content on here is propaganda and idiots posting 4chan level posts while missing the irony of 4chan.
So, might be entirely wrong here, but VOAT is super non-friendly to new users and most content is probably created and up-voated by people with alt-accounts and bots.
Well_Deserved_Brew ago
Voat isn't especially unfriendly to new users IMO. There might be a niggerfaggot joke or an accusation of Jewry coming your way if you've drawn a lot of attention to yourself or if you've stated your account is new, but there's nothing serious intended with it. Mainly it's a test to see if you're on board with the viewpoints here and if you belong on a site that doesn't rely on censorship.
antiliberalsociety ago
I don't trust sapling accounts, and much like the military, you are put through the ringer in that period to see if you can hack it. That being said, truth is rewarded and often won't take long to climb with regular participation. If you aren't a snowflake or pushing some leftist subversive shit, you will be accepted. The ones that cry about it usually are the above.
We were all saplings at one time, grin and bear it because it can be rewarding with the shit you learn and will eventually teach to an apprentice.