For clarification, they are:
Rule 1: No Spam or Memes
Rule 2: No overt attacks on people's race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, or creed
/v/conspiracy moderators have an extremely hands off approach to moderation here. Occasionally, some comments get lots of reports, but we almost always ignore them.
About a month ago, I deleted a comment that had been reported multiple times that was in violation of rule 2.
Granted, I recognize that Voat's entire raison d'etre is for free speech, but it's becoming increasingly clear that TPTB are trying to equate conspiracy theorists with unapologetic racism, and that's completely unacceptable.
However, this brings us into the dangerous realm of subjectivity, and could potentially conflict with Voat's commitment to freedom of expression.
What do the actual users of /v/conspiracy think? The Voat concern trolls have made their position abundantly clear, but ultimately this decision should be made by the legitimate users here.
If the community wants to remove (or keep) either (or both) rules, please make your voice heard now.
Much love.
d3r ago
Nope, not under proposed rule 2. Glad the rule failed.
ardvarcus ago
Rule one is peachy-keen. Rule two has to go.
What are considered over attacks by some would be called honest discussion by others. We should be free to express our views, honestly and freely, about race, sex, and religion, along with every other topic in creation.
Sure, you are going to get mindless abusive posts about blacks and Jews. Probably most of them will be made by blacks and Jews trying to poison the well (the Israelis do so love to poison wells, don't they?). You will get many more posts talking about facts concerning blacks and Jews that are true, but that get completely suppressed on most of the Internet, and are never even uttered on the corporate media.
I came to Voat because I am sick and tired of social justice warriors telling me what to do, say and think. I don't need more of that on Voat.
toobaditworks ago
What am I lying about. I searched names in this sub. Nothing came up. Show me the posts and I'll take back whatever I said. The people lying are the ones spamming. They don't give a shit about this sub. They don't comment here. They don't submit posts here.
toobaditworks ago
I not pro-censorship. I'm pro BAN SPAMMERS and TROUBLEMAKERS. You people don't even come in /v/conspiracy. You are liars trying to disrupt and keep other people from coming here. You are the Pro censorship. That's why you spammed and vote brigaded all the spam. To keep people from posting in that sub and to keep people from wanting to go there.
WHAT YOU DO IS WHAT ANTIFA DOES. Same shit tactics. Disrupt, throw a fit, non-logic and calling for the removal of things you don't like. FUCK YOU.
iMakePotato ago
Thanks for removing rule 2 because I looked through the list of deleted posts and some of them were legitimate conspiracies surrounding the JQ. I happen to believe that Jews are being manipulated themselves by TPTB but I think it will be impossible for them to avoid manipulation if mods here (and everywhere) censor JQ posts.
toobaditworks ago
And the only votes that count should be people who are active in this sub and post here. Not all these people who are faking it to try to shut a sub down. Users means someone who uses... not these visitors who are here to stir up trouble like Antifa.
frog_god ago
How about u put ur rules up ur ass. Like how I spelled u and ur. I'm a rebel.
toobaditworks ago
Member for 1.6 days.
Yeah ... I totally believe you dude. You're not suspicious.
toobaditworks ago
I've been searching all your usernames and NONE of you post to this sub. Why don't you go back to reddit? We see thru your real agenda to shut down free speech. You hate conspiracies so you come here to fuck with this group in order to be able to turn it into a spam fest so people won't come here. Saw your shit on Reddit.
10284151? ago
I argue that a stabler equilibrium can be found while giving slightly more consideration to the individuals with whom you find yourself contending. "That stuff" is demonstrably more than mere distraction. History shows the disparity between how moral societies and immoral societies fare.
You have an agreeable sense of humour, at any rate.
toobaditworks ago
2.2 years and you've not submitted or posted in this sub ever. EVER. And now you want to demod the mods and takeover.
10284104? ago
I understand this approach, but I can't help but think it is purely utilitarian and doesn't take morality or community cohesion into the equation at all. But if this is your way of doing things, so be it. Theoretically it's better than no one fighting these battles in the first place. If I were engaged in your efforts I would try to avoid burning people alive unnecessarily for the sake of the greater good when both the "effigy" and the greater good can be preserved without the use of fire -- but my focus is on keeping Voat physically alive and running right now so I'll settle for your battle-tested methods.
Mumbleberry ago
Go chew foreskin, you nigger kike fag plebbit boy
10284050? ago
You spoke to me before I reached the final conclusion, never after. Had you tried once to address me about my position after that conclusion -- which you used as the foundation of your argument against me -- I know I would have then come to see your position. Instead the drama.
The community will last until the Port and after the Port they'll have the ability to dethrone him at a whim. I'm not concerned about him at this time. I'm concerned about getting the Port through ASAP -- it will give Voat much more liberty, and that includes the individual community members.
10284031? ago
If you suspect this, fine. I have been around for these past two years and I know you have been active with this business all that time, so i trust your intuition. If you so much as had an exchange with him, fine.
I was just thoroughly surprised when you made your post about me without exchanging a single word with me after my posting of my conclusion. Had you so much as said: "This is idiocy, PS" I very likely would have actually read my conclusion and replied: "Yep, it is. Guess I'll re-evaluate the rest of my proposal". Instead I had to spend hours explaining myself everywhere you had gone on about me. It struck me as unnecessarily inefficient.
10283988? ago
I understand your sense of urgency with issues like this but I think a simple comment of the nature: "I don't like this, here's why: X." might go a long way toward solving issues more efficiently, instead of creating drama that forces the person involved to spend time defending themselves as well as taking whatever actions necessary to correct the error indicated -- they can just take the actions. If they disagree with your analysis and don't take actions after your confrontation, then a "dramatic" or public post about it makes perfect sense, because it forces them to contend with the issue.
In my case I would have appreciated such courtesy, because 1) your "urgent" post slowed down my ability to correct my words or explain my position, and 2) now you will never know if I only explained my conclusion as a slow realization because I was called out publicly, instead of (the actual reason) because I truly believe my conclusion was proof of my erring and I needed time to realize this in a wakeful state.
In the case of axlotl, without a direct message to him saying: "Rule 2 is bullshit, although I get that you are enforcing it because it is a rule; perhaps you should ask the community at large if they actually want it around?" he may have very well held the discussion thread and removed the poll without the drama. Now for all you know he only did it because he was called out, and because he had to respond to all the threads calling him out his actions may have been slowed.
It seems to me pragmatic then to have a "middle gear" and reach out to the people you try to witch hunt before witch hunting them, if only to potentially increase the efficiency of correction of whatever issue you have identified.
10283869? ago
That seems like action enough. I suppose others either haven't seen your flag or saw other drama-perpetuating posts and assumed this particular issue was still active. I was just suggesting you act in whatever way is standard in case you haven't already.
As you should, and if you've done so directly to him instead of making an explosive post about it, I applaud your patience and tact. If after your direct messaging he fails to cut it out, at that point I would agree a full-fledged post is justified.
125886586856 ago
PS as a conspiracy verse spam =hate speech you fucking idiot
125886586856 ago
After careful review, you are unfit for moderation.
generate ago
FUCK YOU MORON, I WILL KICK YOU SO HARD YOU WILL CRAWL BACK INTO YOUR MOTHER TO HIDE AND I WILL KICK YOUR WHORE MOTHER UNTIL SHE SHITS YOU OUT AND YOUR NIGGER BROTHER FUCKING KIKE
d3r ago
I'm against rule 2, but rule 2 could be improved by only protecting race and ethnicity
baneofretail ago
You kike mother fucker. This comment will be deleted because the mod is a kike with a nose so large it arrives 15 minutes before he does. He's also a niggerfaggot who deserves to be gassed by the most nefarious nazi sympthaizer HighSchekl Soros and burnt in the pedophile pizza oven until you can fit 6 gorillan into the ashtray of a vw bus, built by niggers in Detroit.
While I will disagree what you say, I will give my life for your right to say it.
penisse ago
What about you update the subverse template so rule#2 appear?
My take on this: this is shit.
You don't have to harass the users to turn them into politically corrects fucks like the redditards.
Everyone has to accept the idea that in this world, one as to teach himself intellectual self-defense: unless it's done with a truck on a crowded sidewalk, an attack is no big deal, just the beginning of a rethorical pissing contest.
FuckTheVirileAether ago
Religions and nations and races etc conspire against each other all the time, all throughout history. National Socialism was a conspiracy of the German race against the other races of the world. Right now American leaders on left and right conspire on how to maintain American hegemony throughout the world. Qatar conspired along with the Obama admin and Iran against its neighbors to manufacture the Arab Spring revolutions. The Catholic Church conspires on how to convince various sects to rejoin it and submit to the Pope's authority.
Religions, nations, etc are formed by great power, and great powers became and remain great powers through conspiracy. Conspiracy theories is investigation into how power is obtained and exercised over others.
And while it certainly seems rude and unnecessary to attack a specific individual who happens to identify with one of the great powers of religion or nationality, and people can't help what system they are born into, adults smart enough to find their way here and understand the topics discussed and willing to engage in debate and discussion are all fairly intelligent people, and should understand that no matter what system they are born into they make a choice to continue identifying with that system; hell, you even change your race these days. If someone feels insulted by something someone else says about some great power, it is because they identify with that great power, and maybe it would help them to learn that that great power does a lot of bad things that make other people dislike it and its members; even if you aren't responsible for what the leaders of your religion do, for example, you still choose to associate with that religion, and maybe having to confront attacks on your religion will motivate you to leave and find something better, or inspire you to promote reform and work to replace its leaders with better leaders. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, and you can't disrupt and innovate and change without hurting someone's feelings. There are always going to be people who don't want things to change, who won't apologize for their past actions, etc. because they did that shit in the first place because it really did seem like it was justified to them. People will insist that even if it turned out the wrong thing to do, they still did it for the right reasons, they had good intentions. Maybe so, but that doesn't change the need for them to apologize for getting it wrong and to make a change to the right thing now, otherwise we never move forward and bury the hatchet, and it usually takes personal and collective attacks to coerce that admission.
See, this is where the PC crowd gets it wrong: they want to defend their protected classes from attacks, but have no problem attacking white people, cops, American government and patriotic American nationalists in general, etc. I welcome the attacks, we have problems and need a wake up call to face them, that's great, but don't turn around and act like you're immune from any criticism from the people you punch up to. When two dykes try to give their 8 year old son a fucking sex change, they ought to be attacked fucking hard, because they need a serious goddamn wakeup call; they don't get to live in a little bubble and fuck up a child just because they got bullied a few times in fucking high school and got fired from a job once, that's total bullshit. If someone drowns themselves in drugs and porn and is too much of a narcissist to have normal social interactions and relationships and decides they like dressing up like a woman and wants breast implants so they can identify with the object of their masturbatory fantasy, fine wallow in your degeneracy, but you're not going to suck me into your fucking delusion; no, I do not have to refer to you by any words other than what I myself choose, and no I do not have to be attracted to you and no I do not have to interact with you in any way whatsoever, tranny - now go hop on tumblr and whatsapp with your other tranny friends and conspire to dox me and get me fired, I'll keep posting about the pharmaceutical companies conspiring to use the media and educational institutions and legal and political measures to clone more cretins like you so they have a big new class of lifelong customers that the government pays most of the bills for all the surgeries and drugs while the pharma companies can raise price and milk the taxpayers who didn't fuck themselves up so royally that they have to institute laws to force people to interact with them in a certain way or face legal consequences.
Fuck.
nonbreakingspace ago
Rule 1 is fine, rule 2 should be "gas the likes, race war now"
10282914? ago
Calm down mahmoud !
gazillions ago
You nave no business being on Voat at all. There are eivhty billion kther places that endorse your stupidity. You don't get Voat, don't understand why people are here and you really should not be be here, ecause you can't respect basic human rights. You don't have a right to shove your political cult shit down other people's throats. You also need to grow the fuck up
10282881? ago
jews did 911
ObviousTatThrowaway ago
I say we ban the mods
HeyBooBoo ago
Dumbfucks don't get it and don't want it: free speech. It starts here and ends with badthink. Such children. "Oh, we only what to end speech we don't like and we know best." Fuck off.
datjedi ago
@axolotl__peyotl why do you keep referencing the other mods when they are inactive
FireSauce ago
No memes as submissions is fine. Memes/infographics in comments should bee allowed.
Get rid of rule two altogether. That's almost what they have written in twoxchromosome.
You haven't banned anybody since November, but broke that steak yesterday with a handful of bans. The reasons didn't really make sense. Should probably undo those..
Edit: Think you should try a little harder man. The reasons on some of the removed content don't relate to anything. Yes some people were harassing the you and the sub but suck it up. They're doing it for obvious reasons and no one is legitimately spamming. So if what they're saying is unpopular let downvoats do the work. Im sure you know where youre at and people don't like getting silenced here.
axolotl__peyotl ago
They were literally spamming and dominating the front page of the sub with zero downvoats.
FireSauce ago
Why did they start doing that?
SpaghettiJones ago
I came over here because I saw somebody calling for the banning of the Mods from this sub. This seems to happen on every platform I see. Just speak your mind V/Conspiracy . And to everyone else, Stop with this "call for action" bullshit.
middle_path ago
Rule #2 could very easily be abused. I would recommend not deleting comments and posts that you disagree with. Voat is an extremely small community and you are bound to get racists here. They appear on my subs as well, it's part and parcel with the voat thing.
The best way to fight speech you disagree with is to provide a decent counter argument if not for the poster, for the lurkers.
Most conspiracies revolve around elites trying to take away rights of the common man, don't become the monster you're supposedly trying to fight.
Also, you should really step down as mod here. Reddit can be your safe space, not here.
DrSelfAppointed ago
Whats this BS Rule 2? You even considering that as an enforceable option should see you castrated of moderating anything on this site.
Most of your comment and sub history seem legit, but this recent one when referring to the deleted comment is pretty fucking telling
How about you pack your shit up and head on down the road back to reddit, don't forget to kiss the Mao memorial they keep out front.
Before even starting a subverse, here is point 2 on create a new subverse page. The logic applies for starting to mod one as well.
Here it is strait from the Voat FAQ
@PuttItOut Would any subverse having censorship rules not following FAQ guidelines be violating any kind of rule? Does this warrant a reminder to subverses site wide about this policy of anti censorship?
10281850? ago
For enforcing a rule (a terrible one, I agree) that has been present for years (or at least as long as I can remember)?
Why not have a discussion about whether or not the community actually desires it, and if it doesn't, remove it? Just like has been done here in this post.
axolotl__peyotl ago
Logic? sh!!
10283793? ago
As far as your actions with the Rule 2, its removal, and your ceasing of Rule 2-related comment removals goes, I support you.
But it seems you have continued to ban users, and for largely arbitrary reasons, which strikes me as power-mod-esque and I cannot support. I would advise stopping with that immediately or the continued calls for your removal as mod will be completely justified. (@kevdude, if you have anything left to criticize this is it, but I think you ought to call your dogs off where Rule 2 is concerned -- I saw two posts about the folly of Rule 2 on my front page upon logging in, both of which were made after Rule 2 had already been removed.)
Know that once the Port goes through communities will have the ability to vote mods out of power. A good thing, as far as I'm concerned. If you want to continue to serve Voat and the /v/Conspiracy community, you may want to start behaving like a servant of the community and not a raging god-king. Else you might find yourself replaced.
axolotl__peyotl ago
...that violated Rule 1 by spamming our forum
Nope, they were all for violating rule 1...the reasons I wrote were silly and irrelevant, just like the constant barrage of attacks and death threats I've received over the last 48 hours.
Funny how the trolls don't like getting trolled, isn't it?
I'm unbanning everybody and we can just watch how /v/conspiracy fares with these assholes running amok.
y'all win, yay!!
10285430? ago
Was it spam or was it dissidence? If certain users show up a each post a few messages negative about you, I don't think the community would consider that spam. If one user posts the same message in every thread for an hour, sure, but at a glance it looked like the messages varied in content (somewhat) and were from different users.
If real spam gets posted I suspect the users will downvote and the comments will collapse.
10281833? ago
This was a nice post, axolotl__peyotl, and your response was mature and responsible. Well done. It would have been nice if the main opponents of Rule 2 had contacted you civilly about Rule 2 instead of breaking Rule 2 while complaining about Rule 2 so that Rule 2 could be removed without quite as much drama. As far as I can see such a civil approach was not carried out, though I may have simply missed it.
GizaDog ago
Please don't turn this in to the Reddit Circle jerk that is happening there now. You know what is happening.
axolotl__peyotl ago
yup. love you :)
GizaDog ago
Looks like you have other issues to deal within Reddit and you dont get paid for it.
BookyMonstur ago
Get rid of rule two. Let my Goats go!
lordvain2 ago
People say offensive things because they are angry and generalize. I take it with a grain of salt, and consider that they probably are not that bad in person. When I first came here, I thought it was a bit crude, but it was refreshing to see a place where people could be FREE to vent their frustrations and not be policed by Orwellian thought police. What they say is forgivable, out of ignorance or anger. What you are doing is an abomination. You have sought this place out when there are other places we have abandoned that are ruined by your kind. You are the enemy of freedom. What you have done is unforgivable, and makes me sympathetic to the most vile comments I have ever read here. We will find another place as we have done before. The more you lot do this the more angry we get. Don't think you have succeded in anything other than making things worse. You are bringing so really bad things, I hope that makes you proud.
Redditsdead ago
Get rid of it. It's too subjective. Especially in v/conspiracy, where tough subjects need to be discussed.
Redditsdead ago
Edit: saw the update. Good on you for making a fair decision.
Papaganda ago
You're basically asking if Voat should become more like Reddit, or like imgur, or YouTube, or Facebook, or Twitter, or everything else. Rule 2 would destroy Voat so quick it isn't even funny. Free speech is the only reason we use it above the other choices. If I saw this implemented​ I would stop visiting​ Voat immediately, and delete it from my browser history. Just stay the only real free speech website on the internet, please.
axolotl__peyotl ago
Done.
FTR I didn't write the rule and I have 0 allegiance to it. I literally have been just doing my job.
The community has spoken and it's gone.
Thanks for all the hate I guess (not you but I mean damn).
Papaganda ago
Thank you, for listening. The only alternative to Voat is 4chan and half of the site is porn! I think someday Voat will replace Reddit. As our culture is changing in the Right direction, it soon will be true. Thanks again.
10281280? ago
Can you define spam and meme.?
Am relatively new to this.
Thank You.
HarveyHarveyJones ago
Does the second rule apply to both submissions and comments?
KosherHiveKicker ago
Rule 2 needs to go.
Zionist-Jews, and those who silently support them have intentionally hid under the protective skirt of "Antisemitism" for far to long.
They have even told us this much in no uncertain words.
matthew-- ago
We want these rules removed and you gone.
Fuck you.
IBNSFW ago
(this should have been done before they hit the sidebar)
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2
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..and you called this a subreddit at one point if I recall correct. Despite your 3 plus years here, you sound like someone that is not a part of "the community" here on voat.. or you would not have had to make this post in the first place. This reads like someone who was afraid of losing there position of "internet power". You smell like reddit to me.
Just one mans thoughts.
AndrewBlazeIt ago
Sounds like something a filthy mohametan turknigger would say.
jsac ago
@axolotl__peyotl is a censoring nigger faggot cunt kike. rule number 2 is nothing but a broad brush to censor whatever the nigger faggot cunt kike @axolotl__peyotl doesnt like.
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
piratse ago
Your second rule is fucking retarded SJW shit. How you can you talk about conspiracy and be hand tied by race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and creed? It's beyond fucking retarded and you know it.
doginventer ago
Rule 1 limits discussion to that which is relevant, beyond that the idea of policing content on a sub about conspiracy is deeply flawed.
Reverse-Flash ago
Why do you feel the need to 'police' your sub? Just let it exist. If someone is being a ass, they probably won't get much feedback anyways. It will be an effort in futility. Obviously, nobody is going to piss and moan if you delete retarded threads, such as "NIGGER" or some other ridiculously obvious spam. Beyond that you should merely be the caretaker of the sub. It would be ironic if a sub called 'Conspiracy' was to begin censoring its content.
TimberWolfAlpha ago
Remove Rule 2
ReddittRefugee ago
Hey @kevdude,
I'm pretty libertarian when it comes to posting, and I think Rule 2 is waay too subjective, probably should be removed, or at least replaced.
What I don't mind seeing, though, is removal of posts that waste people's time. Like the recent barrage of posts designed to do . . . who knows what, other than maybe show they can string a bunch of "offensive words" together?
It was getting hard to find the actual content in this sub.
I'm so libertarian I don't even think there should be a "rule" about contentless posts. We all know how to recognize posts that don't actually have any content, and the recent removals seem to show that the mods "get" it. Maybe we could call it a "principal" that morons who post things that don't have any information and waste people's time will get deleted, and probably should be banned if they repeatedly waste the mods's time.
Le_Squish ago
Banning users from discussing racism and racist things shuts down many very real conspiracies.
Stop trying to do us brown folks a favor.
axolotl__peyotl ago
that hasn't happened.
edistojim ago
It hasn't happened YET. Its the same thing that ruined Reddit and everyone knows it. It will start with a mod deleting the term "nigger faggot" which is used often in other subs, then it goes from there.
Le_Squish ago
But it will because that is what your rules allow.
axolotl__peyotl ago
but it won't because it would cause an actual shitshow instead of this tired nothingburger.
Le_Squish ago
Typical strategy is to try to downplay what is most obviously a power creep.
toobaditworks ago
No typical strategy is to go into a sub and try and shut it down with a bunch of drama and spam. With users who NEVER once posted here nor made any attempts to be an actual user of the sub. Just all of sudden spamming shit and creating drama where no drama exists. You guys are suspicious as fuck. Straight out of /r/conspiratards rule book.
Le_Squish ago
The retarded reaction does not invalidate the original accusation and confirming evidence.
dooob ago
Rule 2 is bullshit
White_Phillip ago
All of those things can be a part of conspiracies.
cyks ago
All of those things can also be one thing, a jew. A covert identity, an international clique. All criticism is seen as an a conspiracy theory and to reveal is to attack.
madmalloy ago
Oh goody, an ongoing troll attack.
NotToBeContrarian ago
Axolotl has been around for three years, now all of a sudden his mod style is being questioned.
Mods can do whatever they want with their subs, if we don't like it we can start our own.
10280476? ago
i tried to set my password to penis, but it's too short
toobaditworks ago
Set it to my_penis. Should be longer.
Crensch ago
Ehhh... I took the "idiotic spam" to mean comments as well, but maybe I was mistaken.
Crensch ago
How about all of them at once?
Auschwitz was not a death camp, and the holocaust was a fucking hoax
krier55 ago
get rid of rule 2 i get why you have it and have the same fears you do about the unapologetic racism in all of voat but if speech becomes censored here what reason do we have not to just go to reddit
toobaditworks ago
Because on Voat you can create your own sub with your own rules and say whatever you want without fear of being banned. And the owner of this site won't ban you for saying those things. But why do think you can just post anything in any sub. Where's the line drawn. If that's the case then how do you stop a group of people from coming into your sub and taking it over posting things NOT related to your sub and the sub's mission (or whatever you want to call it...). Like if I own the sub "pantsuits" and you came in spamming pics of "jumpsuits" it would ruin my pantsuit sub. Why do you want to ruin my pantsuit sub brah?
It's not freedom of speech to go into a sub and try to change it into something it's not. If I create the sub "pantsuits" the users expect it to be about pantsuits. If you come in and spam "jumpsuits" then you are taking away my freedom to post "pantsuits".
You likewise have the freedom to create a "jumpsuit" sub. And make any rules you want or ever do like /v/whatever and let it be a free for all. But you shouldn't dictate what content a sub wants to be about. That's not much freedom. And you'll end up with NO subs at all. Which I suspect is what these spammers intentions are anyways.
They just want to scream loudly like Antifa and shut down other people's freedom of speech by spamming nonsense in this sub so nobody else can post things that the sub is actually about. And then eventually people will stop coming here.
What if a group of people went into /v/niggers and spammed interracial porn all day long. Are you telling me that they believe in freedom of speech so much they wouldn't ban those people in a heartbeat or delete those posts. Fat People Hate bans people ALL the time and doesn't allow people to talk positive about fat people. Imagine if people starting posting fat memes that were positive (not sure how to do that.. but anyways..) they would delete those posts and the ban the users. I'm not sure but I think I'm banned from there and never even posted in the sub.
You have to have rules, unless you want to have /v/whatever. And your welcome to create your own subs.
krier55 ago
i agree with what you are saying but i would say that all falls in rule 1 for spam
Naught405 ago
Some Racist(R) Facts: Blacks do more crime than whites, look, they are 12% of the population, yet they commit more murders than whites, who are 77% of the population. source
Also blacks murder whites at twice the rate that whites murder blacks. Also Africans have below retarded IQ by US metric (if you know how IQ is compiled, this is extremely telling.)
NotToBeContrarian ago
I think you're doing a good job axolotl.
After what happened with /v/Linux and now here it's pretty clear that /v/protectvoat is conducting a hostile takeover of voat so they can silence dissent.
Crensch ago
1.5 year old account with 241 ccp 0 scp
"legitimate user"
NotToBeContrarian ago
Upset about called out?
Crensch ago
"legitimate user" can't even English. You have to go back, Pablo.
NotToBeContrarian ago
Can't argue the point so you have to attack the person?
Pretty jewish reaction...
Crensch ago
Stop butchering the language like a nigger, and you'll stop getting treated like one. Also:
Kek
Rotteuxx ago
Spartacunt ?
NotToBeContrarian ago
Wut?
Goathole ago
You're a little punk that needs his pooper popped. The smell of fucking faggotry on you waifs through the air so that anyone can smell the queer. FUCKSTICK.
ReddittRefugee ago
Thanks for removing the idiotic spam that was clogging up this sub.
Submissions should definitely be removed when it has no informational content, but is just designed to pester the mods or other users.
AndrewBlazeIt ago
Go suck a cock, faggot
Crensch ago
Edit: If user above was not speaking of comment spam, please ignore the following. If he was, please consider the following.
Name says it all, but probably is just a "refugee" like the sandniggers in Europe.
Pizzagate =/= Voat, faggot.
Stinkieroldgoat ago
If you feel rule one is valid, fine. That's pretty acceptable site wide that spam (and to an extent, memes) aren't cool in the serious boards.
Rule two is a gross over extension however. Free speech is just that: free. Voat already has a strong system in place to control words and opinions that aren't what the crowds want to see or hear. By acting as the police of this sub due to perceived "attacks", you are cultivating a mentality which was the cause of past fleeing of other platforms to Voat.
We're all adults here. Seeing words like nigger, kike, faggot, etc are part of being an adult. Don't assume you need to spare our "feelings" in a sub that can occasionally get heated when debate starts. The community can police itself fine
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
what does rule 2 actually have to do with the subverse? what purpose does it serve in regard to conspiracies? say someone posted a conspiracy that included a overt attack on someone's race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, or creed, despite being a conspiracy would you say such a submission doesn't belong in v/conpiracy? if so, why?
I'm not trying to cause trouble, but if you actually do have a valid reason for including that rule which is relevant to the idea behind the subverse I'd like to hear it.
Red_Lindy ago
Not that I need to tell you, but the point of the rule is kikery. Reddit kikes gunna kike. Either that, or the subverse has gone meta.
Let's gas the kikes, if that's the problem, this will sort itself out.
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
possible, one might even say likely, but there's no need to rush to conclusions. Let those accused of such have a chance to defend themselves.
Mick ago
It's good to see you're willing to have a conversation about it.
jsac ago
he is being forced too.. if not he wont be owning this sub for much longer and he knows it ;)
toobaditworks ago
You posted once to this sub 2 years ago. And now all of a sudden you want to destroy it. Interesting.
datjedi ago
lets hope
Mick ago
That's cool, that's people power working as intended :)
mudcatca ago
Hellyeah - this is how it's done
Welcome_fags ago
Nice wording there kike. Remove Rule 2.
What does unapologetic racism mean, and why is it unacceptable?
toobaditworks ago
You've never submitted one post to this sub. Now all of a sudden you want to destroy it. You are very suspicious 3 month old user.
Welcome_fags ago
How does removing rule 2 equal to destroying it?
MillionthThrowaway ago
It means you have to be an apologetic racist, duh!
There, perfectly acceptable racism.
KingoftheMolePeople ago
I dont really post here, so ignore me if you want but,
define attack. If I state that I believe kikes run the world and have an agenda to genocide the white race, is that an attack? or did I only use a bad word. If I call kevdude a nigger, is that an attack? He wont care, so why should anyone else?
Youre also going to need a way to define actual users. Many people only lurk, are they not users? If not then youll need to define a v/conspiracy ccp limit for an opinion to count.
and to be clear, I really dont care what you do in here, and I think the last 24 hrs have been some bullshit butt hurt trolls. You seem to have rules which you thought were broken, so I dont see what the stink is about.
toobaditworks ago
Serious question. I'm not the language police, but can you not post conspiracies without using derogatory language? It's off putting to serious researchers. I mean imagine watching X-Files with them just screaming nigger faggot the whole time. OK that actually would be a funny episode, but not the entire season.
I like that you admit you're not a user here and these other dudes are trolls.
The real deal is that there's a group of people who brigade subs. They think by doing this they can shut down this sub. They create drama where no drama exists. They spam BS that has nothing to do with this sub. This aggravates the users here and makes then not want to frequent this sub. It's an old forum spy tactic that groups use to break up and takeover subs and forums. They aren't users here. Most likely they are liberals who joined Antifa and post cats on Reddit.
KingoftheMolePeople ago
As far as the language goes. Certainly, we all can. But we have always been free speech in the extreme. Including profanity and epithets. I understand if it bothers your community for whatever reason. Youre just in a forum which largely feels different. We use that language all day every day and few have a problem w it, and those that do just deal w it. Ill go back to my example of the JQ. Most here have no problem w using Kike in that instance. They are viewed as dnagerous up to genociding us, so we dont feel the need to hold back in our language. Motherfuckers are trying to kill me, Ill call him a kike. And much worse.
What actually happend was axolotl pissed off regular Voat users by deleting stuff w/o consistency, and then calling it his sub. Voat has been very anti powermod for a long time. Its not unique to this situation. v/canada faced the same thing awhile back, and still sort of boils under the surface. Other subs and users have as well.
If every instance of profanity had been deleted under a clear rule this probably wouldnt have happened. FPH is an example, they have rules they apply every time, no exceptions.
And subs are generally viewed as being owned by the users. Calling it his sub was a large mistake(and subReddit no less) Although this is a non system sub which have their own rules (but a large 'name brand' sub, which is a subject unto itself). So if rules are clearly laid out and consistently applied theres much less drama.
And you are now on the radar of the voat trolls.
As far as someone wanting to take your sub, maybe. I rather doubt it, but its possible. I think youre just being trolled hard. Ive been here for much longer than this acct shows, and I wander the whole site. I have a large overview of Voat as a whole. This just looks like troll drama that will blow over. Set clear rules and enforce them, and this will go away(it will take time, the voat trolls are dedicated shitposters). Although axolotl will probably be harassed forever now. Hes now considered a Reddit power mod, and that is very frowned upon.
The one thing I will say is that I disagree w kevdude on one thing. He keeps saying that because axolotl didnt create this sub, but got it thru transfer that somehow he's less of an Owner, and is restricted in his rule setting. This isnt to my knowledge any kind of rule here. He owns this sub. And it is a private sub, you can set whatever rules you wish as a community. But that needs to be emphasized. This is still a sub for the community. You should have a say in how it is run. That IS a goat philosophy. But unless someone can show me a rule (maybe i missed something or just dont remember it) or a post by Putt or Atko stating otherwise, Axolotl is Owner, and can technically do wtf ever he wants here. He'll be asking for heaps of trouble if he tries to exercise that power over your communities wishes, but he can do so. He can delete the sub, or turn it into a parody if he wants.
toobaditworks ago
Well I think they blew it all out of proportion and are going about it the wrong way.
I agree. You have to draw the line somewhere. These spammers can't dictate what every sub can or can't do in their subs. That's ridiculous.
You know they would ban people in their subs if they started talking good about Jews. Try posting: "Jews are cool..." oops now I'm banned. oops now I'm labeled (((me))). That's how you know they don't care about free speech at all. They just want to takeover and kill subs that don't spread their message. They would brigade the fuck out of me if I did that... I'm sure I'm on their list already.
KingoftheMolePeople ago
Only if pro-judeism is stated as against their rules. You may not like what is happening, but you can state exactly that wo a ban. If there is not a rule they cant and wont ban you from a sub for saying that. Youll likely catch downvoats for it, but you cant be banned unless it is against that subs rules.
Rotteuxx ago
Legitimate Voat user here.
Rule 2 is kikery incarnate
What if I develop a conspiracy theory about overt racism in the media supported by (((executives))) ?
Will that get deleted because I suggest that kikes are manipulative wastes of oxygen & are behind it ?
What if I comment in a post that OPs theory is flawed because it doesn't take into account the scientifically proven limited intelligence of niggers ?
Will that get deleted ?
jerry ago
Legit 😂 What the fuck is a legit voat user? You aren't just some user... I've yet to see Jew theories shunned here... good luck trying to use logic when shutting on a OP. People here like memes and reddit 1-liners now
TheSeer ago
Memes are the path to victory, bro. Meme magic. Information war. Yeah, we need hard facts and well reasoned conclusions, but all that is pointless if we don't spread the information we have gathered.
HillBoulder ago
Kikery incarnate
Love it