If PuttItOut (or whatever his name is) is gone or perhaps unavailable to the threat of this website or if for other reasons a new site is needed/desired. I have the ability and willlingness to create it.
Where I would need help is: I think we need a few trustees (I mean freedom of speech types that are willing to be available and help make important decisions here forth known as the "counsel of goats"). I do not know what the state of the code is, but even if it's a complete rewrite my offer still stands. I do not know how to keep the site up, technically yes but a big no from the stand point of fighting those who would take it down.
What stays:
I think I could transfer over users and "points". It would just be a matter of PMs and proving you have access to your older account. Your username and rank would carry over.
What changes I would make:
Little as possible however I would be more willing to shadowban, have a secret shill-pointing system. I'd also be more willing to introduce backdoors to catch and determine farmers. Allowing users to seemingly wreck the site burying a story only to turn the tables on them. None of this initially just communicating where I am coming from.
What I need:
Basically a decision from the counsel of goats. I don't want to build a thing that depends on only me nor something that we are not going to use. I don't want to be the soul person calling the shots. I need a counsel of goats, to make these decisions and an ability to govern the counsel itself. I think we could automate and poll these things, but there would need to be some requirement that the poll is looked at and considered.
What say ye?
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Wowbagger ago
If we did want a clone, offering to be censorious and being someone who's at best an inconsistent poster who was gone for nearly 3 years before showing back up about a year ago is not a good look. I know which goats I'd trust and I'm sorry, dude, it's not you.
asdf23 ago
I'm not sure what stats your looking at. On voat I am mostly a lurker. And I think consistently so. Other than that I elected to exactly no responsibility (previous to now, so judge me according to that please)
What I'm offering is to write the rebuild and maintain what I write, and make that code available to those that would support it. I do think that is impossible without the council of goats. Also I think that council needs to be held responsible. (Weekly role call click button, mandatory polling with optional no-preference response.) Hope that makes since.