Registering an acct that doesn't even require an email isn't a giant hurdle. Being secretive also creates curiosity. I call it the Studio54 effect. Exclusivity drives a need to find out what's on the inside.

If this was the case, surely we would be told of such.

PuttItOut literally told the entire userbase exactly via a sitewide sticky when closure took place.. you dishonest fucking prick.

A simple "request" to put Voat into a unusable state? Next you will be gargling @Joe_McCarthy's nutsack to remove Voat's proven effective immune system.

I'd rather see people sign up for accounts instead of seeing Voat in permanent maintenance mode from DDoS attacks. The very reason it had to be closed was due to near constant attacks that lasted weeks.

Prior to that the same cock_fags forced Voat's search functionality to be separated due to their exploitation of that as well.

It's low effort to sign up and see, just not zero effort. Keep it as is.