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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14035528? ago
So how do we know this is a legit ask from a legit owner?
14035689? ago
That's actually a good question as an older goat I know that puttitout is a site owner but I guess theres little to actually prove that. Best I can do here is a notice for a few months ago when costs and time required to keep the site alive were getting to much for Putt and he asked whether we should keep going or not. https://voat.co/v/announcements/2580890 - I hope this satisfies this question, if not let me know and I will keep on digging!