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.
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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?