Hello new goats & old - I am writing this as I know that the site owner is too proud to ebeg, well I am not.
Voat's BTC account 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k is empty totally empty not a cent in there.
You probably think that this website is kept alive with advertising, but I am afraid we have been cut off from all payment processors. As a result the store has been shut as it cannot accept cards & the advertisements on the side bar have remain unchanged for several years and are largely there for comedic value at this point.
As you can imagine hosting a website with tens of thousands of active users is costly, we managed to reduce the overheads earlier this year when some dedicated goats with more skill than I rewrote the code and moved the site to better hosting, but the costs are still there and we cannot allow the site owner to take the brunt of this.
The cabal have been after Voat for a very long time, many times we have barely hung on by a thread & now we need your help. Please help keep your new home alive as it wont survive without all of our assistance.
Godspeed - @lostandfound
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14034541? ago
what is wrong with a go fund me?
14034718? ago
The problem is the payment processors, so even with a go fund me, there is no way to accept payments.
14035211? ago
Can you explain this? How can a person not be able to accept payments? Do they not legally want to be accepting payments? My daughter pays people for commissions all over the world through paypal. No one has ever had payment processors issues.
14048830? ago
Exactly what they all said. Places like PayPal and the organizations that process MasterCard/Visa etc can cut off their services to places they deem unacceptable.
Sometimes they fear some type of legal action or think the merchant is doing something illegal, but most of the time, its a political decision. PayPal cut off their service to Alex Jones and his InfoWars store.
Its just another effort by the big corps to hit the pockets of anyone who isn't in lock step with their agenda. When that happens, the only way for places to accept payment from subscribers is cash-in-the-mail or crypto-currency.
14038250? ago
Same thing happened with Wikileaks. Its done to lots of people these days.
14035659? ago
Your daughter isn't running a free speech message board
It's not that uncommon for processors to decide they won't deal with people for political reasons
14035750? ago
So people want to be undetectable? Is this what you are saying?
14035948? ago
That said, if I was Putt I'd want to be undetectable, he's not exactly popular among SJW's and their leaders, an we all know how they love to persecute folk just for having opposing views
14035869? ago
Nope what I'm saying is Paypal et al kicked Voat into touch because of wrongthink