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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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.