It would make a lot of sense. We know it's admins are unprofessional, then add in the fact that Reddit itself is a business, they're interested in making money and right now they're practically a monopoly on media aggregation. Along comes Voat, a threat to Reddit. Since this is the internet, and no one can prove you've done anything - they can do anything they like anonymously.
The PayPal ordeal, the hosteurope.de one, they've all received complains about CP and illegal activity and so far it's all been attributed to SJWs and trolls but what if it's Reddit's own admins who are behind this? They're the only ones (AFAIK) who have anything to gain from it (financially). Hell, some of it's admins and mods are known SJWs who would delete any posts regarding GamerGate. We know what they're capable of, so it's not that far out to assume they're behind this somehow.
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Stavon ago
The opposite is true, reddit wants some of its users to leave the site.
The ones trying to harm voat are likely reddit users or subreddit admins but not reddit itself.
HitlerIsBlack ago
They might want people to leave Reddit, but they definitely don't want them going to a competitor.
Stavon ago
They don't think of voat as a competitor, they see it as a circlejerk of the worst of the worst.
And IMO it is not a competitor, reddid has the same userbase as facebook, that's the competitor; or maybe tumblr.
HitlerIsBlack ago
I bet that's how Blockbuster felt about Netflix when it turned down the opportunity to buy them out. If Reddit was youtube, would Voat be Liveleak? Maybe not yet but Voat has potential.
Stavon ago
I know, but I don't think reddit is aware of that. They probably look at the user counts and decide to ignore voat.