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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Dismember ago
Well looking at the accounts on the ban list, SBBH has a bloody nose as well. Look at this for example: https://voat.co/v/AskVoat/2926813/15735062
Let's see if Voat is serious about it or being selective.
heygeorge ago
I believe that thread (@cynabuns, please see above as some of these users are showing up as active) and another one insulting @nadeshda were jumped into at a slightly later time, once the newness wore off and people weren’t commenting. All it takes is one user to ignore a random comment, and then once the thread is over the manipulator can take over and no one would even notice.
Unless you’re insinuating that @thebuddha is vote farming! Lol
Dismember ago
One more exclamation mark is needed to drive home how ridiculous you think my statement is I think. I mean most will get it but some on Voat aren't that observant.
Often people vote on their friend's posts because they know that even though they are not complicit, even if they were to look back, they would turn a blind eye. I know you're not denying that some people on SBBH in the past have abused voat manipulation. If I'd wanted to nail those people, I would have linked @PuttItOut and @Cynabuns to the v/linux ban log and submission deletions with numerous "__shitposter" accounts and they could just follow their nose from there and look at the votes and then look at the v/gaming raid and see that the same posters were involved with the same few accounts voting their alts up while doing a poor job of acting like different people.
It would be nice to think that all that will just stop though. Some of us thought were on the "good side" but maybe we were just confused and became the monsters we hated. They have said they are willing to let posters start afresh. Maybe it's time to lay down the weapons and just use the one account?
ExpertShitposter ago
The shitposter accounts were not mine. There was nothing illegal about the v/linux raid, and i got banned from there. There was no v/gaming raid, but only censorship agains't my legitimate posts, by a reddit faggot who isn't even active on voat.
Dismember ago
I have never thought or said they were yours. You were likely just used for someone else's ends.It's easy to make it look like someone else. Not a thing you would do to a supposed friend but it takes all kinds and mental-illness is a thing.
ExpertShitposter ago
I don't think those accounts were made to mock or imitate me, think it was just a joke. But inevitably a few r/pv shills are using it against me.
Dismember ago
I think if you can convince yourself of that, it might be the best, even if it seems a bit naive.
ExpertShitposter ago
Not sur what part you think is naive. The reason i think they were made as a joke is because i think i know who made them, and if i am right, its a friendly face from SBBH. As for r/pv shills, you dont know the history. They are truly vile faggots. One if them is talking shit right now, and dial_indicator admitted that he originally came from r/pv discord to SBBH in order to destroy our sub.
Dismember ago
Of course you are right about who made them. Seems like everyone knows but you. Anyway he's not really important but if he reads this he should delete his Rabbi and other alts that he still uses, that way he can get out of this with his nose and SBBH's nose somewhat clean.
I'm sure you'll survive the big ol' baddies from Real PV. Words can only really hurt you if you let them. All they really wan't is attention and I think that's all any troll wants. ;)
Happy posting.
ExpertShitposter ago
If they could hurt us, we wouldn't be here today. Instead they got mostly BTFO'd from the site, and we are still here. Tho they did manage to get voats top dev to quit the site by spreading lies about her and insulting her daily. Being a woman shoe couln't handle it in the end. A big loss for voat dev team, and a meaningless win for their sad lives.
Dismember ago
FuzzyWords was never the top dev here though they did help @PuttItOut test a lot of stuff and probably kept him Sane at times. That's what she told me anyway, maybe she was being modest but I can only go off that. The tranny thing wasn't a lie but it was never a big deal anyway and no one's affair but hers. And Fuzzy could dish out as well, don't doubt that. She likely had other issues to deal with. I can't see her leaving because of a troll who just thrpows insults, she faced a lot better than that. We locked horns more than once and even helped each other in the end.
Anyway that's all water under the bridge. Forget the negative stuff and post about something you like. I'm going to check out here because I like to upvote people I talk with and today I seem like I have way to many to give out. It will have to end soon. It was locking up at 10 still yesterday.
Fuzzy if you read this, good wishes your way. ;)
ExpertShitposter ago
The was pretty big on the dev team, and she did it FOR FREE. You don't fuck over free help. She might have been some kind of faggot, but the only proof they had was very circumstantial. As far as i remember, she had a profile picture of some cartoon character from a comic that features some tranny characters. That is certainly concerning, but not concrete evidence. The rest of it, with the autistic blog is totally fabricated.
Dismember ago
I've deleted what I said, it's not my place to comment on it especially since most seem to have forgotten it. I'll leave that to her. Forget the losers for tonight they really aren't worth it.