Hi,

Some of you may know me from over on reddit as a user who has been fighting an uphill battle to preserve free speech on that site in the face of intense pressure from both the reddit meta and the admin team to abandon such ambitions.

I came to whoaverse (now voat) back when I felt reddit was near the point of collapsing. I watched as the users from /r/conspiratard used bots to register every user name of /r/conspiracy regulars that they could get their hands on. I also watched as a user (pyro) spammed /v/conspiracy with memes for 12-24 hours straight in an attempt to blockade this subverse.

Although I am more active on reddit currently (working to prevent unjust removals on /r/worldnews and protect /r/conspiracy from the likes of bipolarbear and emr), I also visit voat daily in order to make sure that content is being allowed to flow freely on this subverse.

To that end, I am a bit concerned with the current push to add new moderators for one primary reason;

There is currently no mod log available on voat, which means there is no way for mods to know what content (if any) is being removed by other moderators.

I feel we have a team here who can be trusted to adhere to the ethos of free flowing information which is constantly under attack on reddit, and, until mod logs are added on voat, I would be quite weary of any new additions to the mod team.