Today we banned vote manipulators and reset their votes. As cache expires, the accounts targeted will have their point totals adjusted appropriately.
You will likely recognize many of the names now on the ban list. Some I have mixed feelings about as I considered them fun to have around or an asset to Voat as a whole, but objectively, there was no question as to their abuse and manipulation, and for this reason we had no choice but to respond to all abuse with the ban hammer.
@Cynabuns and I have finalized a new system for more efficient processing of vote manipulation bans and going forward we will be reviewing manipulation more regularly. We don't plan on allowing the hammer to gather dust any longer.
We did not send warnings today like we usually do for those in the gray area. If we come across your name again, you will be banned. Fair warning. It's not worth it.
If you feel you have been targeted by vote manipulation please PM me so I can research as we are dealing with a mountain of data when reviewing bans.
To those banned:
I personally don't judge your actions, but you know as well as I do what you were doing. Vote manipulation can not continue going unchecked and for the sake of integrity you got the hammer. If you want to create a new account and forgo the manipulation, you are welcome back. If not, I'll ban you again (and again and again). The thing you don't realize is when I ban you, I am resetting your votes against your target(s), so there is no point in continuing with these ways.
P.S. Now vote manipulators get a shiny new badge so everyone knows that they've been bad little goats. :)
P.P.S. The ban reasons in the ban log are wonky because if a user had multiple infractions, we only used the first description. In addition, the target in the description may be the banned user (which doesn't make sense) as many of these bans resulted in both users (vote farmers) being banned and the code simply reused the same description for each ban.
Banned user log:
https://voat.co/log/banned/user
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Artofchoke ago
I WANT A BADGE
Cynabuns ago
Not this kind! ;)
Rotteuxx ago
In memory of Dial_Indicator a.k.a. SaneGoat, all OG top 10 criminal shills should get a fitting badge :)
Hysterics7787 ago
I love how fast you all are trying to push this onto SaneGoat. Dial was one of your flunkies. He posted in your subverses, and none of you said a damned thing about him until now? Amazing.
Meanwhile half the damned accounts banned were associated with v/SoapBoxBanHammer and you have the audacity to try and divert this all onto SaneGoat lmao. Hilarious.
Rotteuxx ago
One of my flunkies ?
I don't own subverses, simply moderate them when I remember to check them out.
Really ? I never told her to fuck off ?
Oh that's right, we got along real fucking well she and I. We were freaking cyber lovers and all.
I counted aboot 10 in all, most with no more than 2 posts to SBBH.
Almost as if they posted there simply so faggot accounts like yours could associate them with that sub in a useless flame war like we've seen time and time again.
So not only is your claim a steaming pile of shit, you sound like a butthurt alt whose lost accounts today and now feels like ReeeEEEEEeeeeing about Muh SBBH Cabal
As a matter of fact, since so many banned accounts posted to GA, I could moronicly make a claim as you did that @Srayzie is behind tons of vote manipulation.
The worst part is, your claim clearly illustrates that SBBH is pro free speech and doesn't discriminate against users since even shills and manipulators are free to post there.
Fucking moron, go back to discord and work on pushing a different narrative, this is fucking low effort.
srayzie ago
Why is my name always brought into everything? 😭 I know you’re just making a point. So I forgive you. 🙂
Rotteuxx ago
Because I like you and wouldn't want you to think that I don't care aboot annoying you :)
srayzie ago
Hahaha thank you.
Hysterics7787 ago
There's at least 18 SBBH accounts banned.
You don't need to tell me that shills and manipulators are free to post at SBBH. That's sort of the idea behind the subverse afterall, isn't it?
The projection is hilarious. You guys are the ones organizing on Discord. You guys are the ones who had numerous posts up here all shifting blame away from SBBH within a fucking hour or Putt posting this. Dozens of comments in this thread are SBBH users poking fun trying to distance themselves from it all. It's hilariously transparent, and the fact that you wrote out this much complete bullshit to try and manipulate people into not seeing reality shows how fucking desperate you people are.
This seems like a warning from my perspective. They banned one of your little groups main accounts and a bunch of your alts. Now maybe stop trying to fuck Voat over, ok?
Rotteuxx ago
Yawn
You know you reheated rhetoric is fucking boring, put some fucking effort into it.
Always the same pattern, the same empty claims, trying to strawman the shit out of anything you can nitpick from a comment.
KeK, so much projection Sane, Dial it down.
Hysterics7787 ago
You tried to downplay the amount of SBBH users banned by nearly half. You obviously looked. So why the lie?
I mean there's only one person lying right now, so? What's the deal?
No comment on FrostyPuppy being deleted, Gabara having defended that account even after PeaceSeeker highlighted that those accounts were obviously being used to brigade?
No comment on Expert having his sockpuppets deleted?
Just continual shifting of blame, just like we're all wildly aware kike shills are taught to do?
Yeah mate, always the same pattern indeed.
Nadeshda ago
Clearly you can read but suffer from understanding the full concept of what was said.
Seriously... live a little, get out more, life will be better that way.
Hysterics7787 ago
What exactly are you getting at here? That I take the manipulation of one of the only websites that actually has freedom of speech as a serious issue? Because it sort of sounds like you're implying I shouldn't give a shit about pretty much the last bastion of free speech in our fucking society.
Putt said they were entertaining but that he basically had to draw a line. So he banned a bunch of their sockpuppet accounts and one of their mains -- which from my perspective was done to send a message that while they're welcome on the website they need to knock off the bullshit.
I mean c'mon, if you're going to accuse someone of not getting it at least tell them what they don't get.
All that said I take this seriously because it is serious -- and I don't really trust anyone who acts like it isn't. The ability to freely speak our minds shouldn't be taken for granted. It's important. It's worth being an anal prick and holding these people accountable for their bullshit manipulations of the average Voater.
And you all can accuse me of being a shill all you want, I'm fucking consistent, and nothing I'm doing can have a negative impact on Voat. Even if I'm wrong. You people should be thankful that there are people keeping their eyes open for this sort of manipulation. I've said many times that I don't have hard proof, but every single time there's bullshit on Voat there's always a SBBH user at the center of it. Every single fucking time. I don't believe in that variety of coincidence.
Nadeshda ago
Well I have been an owner on SBBH for a long time now. I have never met with fellow benners on a discord chat. I have never been invited, lol.
Dial has personally never done me no harm, so I leave him alone. He posts on SBBH and heck nearly everyone and his mother has modded SBBH at one point I counted 20 mods at one point and it rotates. Then these buggers mess up the CSS and @heygeorge gets pissed and fires/bens us all. Sometimes people get modded because we like them and other times because we can’t stand them but mess with them.
Everyone thinks we are conspiring, it’s a pretty funny larp, nothing to take seriously though.
By all means take Freedom of Speech seriously but not so much SBBH. I cannot speak for all but hopefully you are able to piece together what I said above in context with your comment I originally replied to.
I will look at the pm you sent me in earnest later today. I am however on a tight schedule.
Hysterics7787 ago
I know, I've been invited several times throughout the years. I do completely understand that there is a legitimate aspect of shitposting to it. I'd have to be a genuine retard to not recognize that. By spamming out invites the way they do, they give themselves a veil of legitimacy. Plenty of average guys such as yourself now will voice their defense because you personally haven't seen anything malicious.
I don't think you're all conspiring. I think the majority of them are probably just average Goats that got sucked into it and hey -- shitposting is entertaining. I get it.
I would like for that to be true, I've just seen too much shit originate from the inner circle of v/SoapBoxBanHammer to feel that they're not malicious. Nearly every single bit of drama on Voat has one of the 'inner circle' involved first hand.
heygeorge ago
Am I not the innermost of innermost?
Frequently I have invited those critical of SBBH to mod so they are welcome to see the inner bits, the smail, etc. Sometimes these are accepted. This is rare. I believe that is because they do not want to have access to the ‘inner workings’, because it might force them to accept that maybe they are just wrong.
When you say ‘sucked into it’, what sort of thing do you mean by ‘it’?
And conspiring to do what exactly? There’s obviously no taboo topic which isn’t discussed on Voat. I’ve never quite understood what the supposed ‘goal’ of ‘conspiring shitposters’ is actually meant to accomplish.
Rotteuxx ago
No comment aboot your reheated shitty tactics
No comment aboot your patterns
No comment aboot your empty claims
No comment aboot you strawmaning
No comment about you being Sane & Dial
Just continuously bringing random shit, just like we're all wildly aware kike shills are taught to do ? (why the fuck a question mark, this ain't even a question retard)
Yeah mate, always the same pattern indeed.
Hysterics7787 ago
I've been pretty consistent with my claims.
Right back at you, however I'm holding a light on you people while you're the ones using straight out of the book shill tactics. I'm not the one banned here, right? I'm not the one that's part of some strange circlejerk of offsite behavior. Everything points back to you guys time and time again, yet you always distant yourselves from it like the utter cowards you are.
Rotteuxx ago
That sbbh is a cabal that organizes off site but not you discord faggots ?
How come you know so much about shill tactics ? It's almost as if you were trained in them.
Like I said before, your tired attempts at starting a flame war is fucking redundant & pathetic. It's like you make sure your alts post there so that when they're brought down you can pathetically try and shift the blame away from your pathetic self.
heygeorge ago
@Hysterics7787 all of those accounts were mine, including the flat earth tranny ones
Rotteuxx ago
I knew it, which is why I put in the effort to list these :
@Tri-Edge - 2 sbbh posts
@Tri-Blade - 3 sbbh posts
@TheMadShitposter - 2 sbbh posts
@SuperDouche - 12 sbbh posts
@SensibleShitposter - 1 sbbh post
@McHenry - 8 sbbh posts
@MasterShitposter - 3 sbbh posts
@Jack_Dorsey - 3 sbbh posts
@Initial_Setting - 1 sbbh post
@ItsBad - 55 sbbh posts
@Dial_Indicator - 308 sbbh posts
@AmalekReturns - 3 sbbh posts
12 in all, where the fuck did your alt @hysteric7787 get 18 from ?
Hysterics7787 ago
Because as we all know it's only SoapBoxBanHammer and you guys don't have a dozen some odd upvoat farms? I'm including ShitpostersTavern in my list, as it's used strictly by members of SoapBoxBanHammer.
You would have done this yourself if you were being honest and didn't have something to hide.
Rotteuxx ago
Ffs, why don't you ever bring up my personal upvoat farm /v/welding ? It's pretty fucking obvious yet you always skip it.
Nadeshda ago
Lol... I like that sub, I haven’t farmed there in a while.... what are your thoughts on nice looking girl welders making an appearance? ;)
I mean we are just trying to see how viable a gazillion points really are...right?
Rotteuxx ago
Girls make excellent Tig welders, much finesse is required. Maybe I'll train you someday !
Great way to make useless SCP as well :)
Nadeshda ago
Personally, I think Tig welding is rather beautiful and elegant and I am certainly interested in learning Sir. Yes indeed, them points are rather silly but v/welding is rather precious. :)
I’m game, actually I saw some Tig welding classes offered at a nearby college recently, with grants and thought to myself should I apply? Then timing issues cropped up, I even thought of taking automobile/ mechanic classes; as I seem to get lumbered with dodgy cars at times and the manual labor charges involved are redicilous.
Also; I think having a trade is possibly one of the coolest things. I’ll let you know what happens with this... you’re inspirational what can I can say... :)
Hysterics7787 ago
Because it actually has a topic and is relevant. The twentieth version of SBBH however has the exact same topic and content as all the other SBBH subverses though. I haven't actually counted but in all seriousness you guys must have close to twenty subverses that essentially have the same topic; "shitposting". Why there needs to be that many variations for anything not malicious is beyond me.
You know this. Quit playing dumb.
Rotteuxx ago
So you're saying I'm a relevant user ?
Hardly the mark of a shilling shitposter !
So how many are there ? 10 ? 12 ? 18 ?
Making numbers up as you go ?
heygeorge ago
As you can tell by the rantings of my alt @hysterics7787, I am functionally retarded.
So that’s how I got 18
kneo24 ago
Wait a second, is everyone now you instead of @kevdude?
Nadeshda ago
I am sorry for your brain loss my dear friend... I genuinely hope it gets better! You know some studies suggest that if you eat properly it can help with brain function. What does “I got 18” actually mean?
Rotteuxx ago
I thought that alt was just being periodically hormonal and incapable of intelligent discourse.
heygeorge ago
Nope, turns out it’s tertardation