Explanation time for those of you who may have not been around voat for a while:

This entire site is astroturfed to hell. It has been under constant infestation of every shill group imaginable in many ways and in every method you can imagine. It's been this way for a very long time. Years. It's not just the obvious trolls like SBBH, who are coordinated, and more nefarious than simply trolls. Points farming, content curation (controlling the front page with many alt accounts, keeping aversive content on the front page at all times, sliding important information to invalidate the purpose of a free speech site)

Every group of bad actors you can think of is here. Almost every poster outside of the primary subs is a shill for some PR firm or another. Controlling digital real estate is big business. People are heavily invested in making sure the first thing you see when you come to visit Voat is "KILL ALL NIGGERS". No really, look at the front page on any given day and I promise you there will be something similar to this. The point is to scare people who might otherwise join the community, which makes the community worthless and with bad reputation. There are similar tactics employed on major chan sites as well.

This effort to create a manufacturered crisis in QRV around cartoon child porn and bomb making posting is not the work of "trolls". It's the work of people who are very heavily invested in driving people away from the community and with the eventual goal of taking over this community. Call them Communist (the ends justify the means) call them deep state, call them intel spooks, probably a mix of all three. But don't call them benign. They are not benign. They are actually attackers and their goal is to destroy the free dissemination of information.

They post and bombard this information all over the sub constantly, and then they say "we need moderation!!!" (Manufacture a problem) then they say with their other hand "the mods are doing nothing! We need curation! Open a moderator position!!! We need a janitor!!" Of course the same people posting the porn will be first in line to be the janitors, with the goal of attaining a super user position on the board, and thus the ability to control and delete posts at will, especially and including any useful information. Once these people attain a super user position, they will no longer need to post porn, so they can say "see? We stopped the porn!" (Provided a 'solution' to the crisis). The cost is you give up your rights to having free flow of information.

This is an effort to lift the curtain on the utter shitstains who inhabit this place. They aren't ever going to stop. They are going to continue to do what they do until something gives in one direction or the other. If they get their porn deleted, they will say "there's no free speech here!!! QRV censored us!! It's compromised!! It's evidence that it is a controlled operation!!" If they get moderation, they will work to gain that super user status. If you ban them, they will simply hop to another virtual machine on a different instance with a different IP and start again. They can keep playing the whack a mole game forever. They will keep doing it forever. They will never stop, because these people are more than trolls, they are BAD ACTORS.

Anyone who works this hard to destroy is motivated by more than the lulz. Voat is a virulent cesspool of these people. Yes there are legitimate users, but they are heavily outnumbered by professional forum trolls with dozens of sock puppet accounts and very very bad intentions.