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.
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.
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.