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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srayzie ago
@Uk_Bloke_Awoke! 😔
@Shizy look!
UK_Bloke_Surprised ago
Well I was more surprised than you were.
I only had one account in use, though I left in place the first one registered because I soon realized it would have doxed me. I stopped using it straight away.
I have never had multiple alts and have never upvoted myself in any way...
I have made over 10,000 more upvotes than downvotes.... and over 6,000 CCP, and I think peopke seem to like my presence, except the shills maybe...
I downvote people who are anti Q or anti Trump and those who make nasty comments... I guess that would sometimes mean all their comments, but in my five months I've never seen any rule about what I could downvote. This is my first and only site of this type, so I have no previous experience...
The ban log says I did a minus 1 downvote for a user named '137' but that user is on this list too, so I guess I was right to downvote them.
I'm glad @PuttItOut has taken steps to stop the multiple alt upvote and downvoting, but feel I am innocent here...
@srayzie @Shizy
AlphabeticalAnon ago
You are an innocent here! And so was I and my moderator who kept having to deal with that hideous troll who kept creating abusive accounts and having his "friends" going around and posting shit about us and abusing us in everyway he could. Now I know who the enemies of the people are and I'm GLAD to see draaaak's ass banned! Too bad they didn't get the other troublemaker!
I am so sorry that you were somehow targeted too. But with that other account trying to use your name, I guess we're all on someone's sick hit list.
kneo24 ago
Your "moderator" was you on a different account. The ban reason that came up on the ban log had your current username attached to it. You insist on pushing a false narrative. You are the (((enemy))). I will continue to treat you as such.
AlphabeticalAnon ago
Stop stalking me! I know what you are and what you did to my group! You are also a liar and a seething enraged troll! Go back to Hack Forums!
Also people can tell that you just want to keep posting lies and falsehoods. You accuse others of what you're guilty of! So fuck off you hideous egocentric psychopath. My moderator did nothing to you and you assailed him affter trying to keep your insane war going with me!
And this claim of yours that you contacted draaaak to help you attack and gang up on me is flimsy at best but if true, proves how fragile and sick you are! Well I did some digging too on you! You're a cancer, draaaak!
kneo24 ago
Look, another claim you will never substantiate.
And another....
I can't go back to a place I was never at.
A "no u" statement.
Projection on your part and essentially a "no u" statement.
That's leftist speak for, "I have no argument and will not substantiate my claims with any sort of reasoning behind it."
Your moderator attacked me first and was clearly involved in vote manipulating, otherwise they wouldn't have been banned. It's also clear you and your moderator are the same person. This is what happens when you engage in lies.
I never made any such claims.
More leftist speak.
Cool, what did you find?
I'm not draaaak.
AlphabeticalAnon ago
Another repeat episode of As the Butthurt Churns!
You sure are so miserably hurt over something that should have never even been turned into the war you made, shill. Draaaak. All you've done is show and prove that someone calling you out causes you to gather all your minion accounts or whatever and call out for an all out war, make threats, shit all over someone's board, create impersonator accounts, blast on high until you can stomp around like an antifa creep.
Riiiight. You endorsed it. Upvoted everything like that then continued to speak about "finishing" me in private. WTFF is wrong with you? Is an insult really that devastating to you that you have to destroy someone over it? I called it right. I know what you are.
Further you have never proven any of your claims against me but WOW there you are going around to any board that will listen to your whining while you spread your lies and your buttcheeks for your faggoty "friends"! Nobody normal CARES about what your damage is!
You chose to keep on and on over something that NORMAL people would have just gotten over! Me insulting you for being a prick! But your type is so full of yourself and your "status" here like it even fucking means anything. You have no idea how stupid you look! And I have been telling YOU in public how full of shit you are! While you then chose to attack me in private messages and again, I told you how full of shit you are!
Take MadWorld's advice, if you're going to be here and blast your shit around, be prepared that some people might call you names. Grow the fuck up! You're toxic!
We will see about that! Someone knows you from there, butt dick.
Putting you back on BLOCK! You're fucking crazy.
kneo24 ago
Another "no u".
I'm not Draaaaak.
Provide proof.
Provide proof.
Provide proof.
Keep on pretending you aren't shilling. Someone called you out over these tactics two months ago.
I have, and I just did it again. I can see that you claimed to have blocked me, and I'd be surprised if you weren't lying about this as well. You have refused to substantiate any of your claims against me publicly and privately. By the way, me messaging the mod mail system when you blocked me from your subverse for defending myself isn't stalking you. You can stop playing the (((victim game))) now.
I'm not even sure what point you're trying to make here or what you even mean.
"Oy vey goy! How dare you defend yourselves from niggers and spics! You should just let them rape and murder your wives and children!"
By all means, keep complaining that I defended myself from you sticking up for your shilly friend.
This is another (((leftist talking point))). "Oy vey goy! Care about the optics of defending yourself when someone attacks you!"
With zero citations.
"oy vey! I'm a victim!". Yeah, I can show the world the screen shots of the "private message" where I call you out for being full of shit. Would you like that?
I never claimed he was you for that. You run a shitty, small, subverse with 4 users total, two moderators, and both of you use the same exactly language. Then you both run around upvoting each others comments when you start shit with someone. It's easy to see how many times the user names changed in the middle of the argument your accounts created. It's consistent.
"You're draaaak because I say you're draaaak and I'm going to use an argument that I strawmanned to prove it!"
Okay, you keep doing those shilly things that you've been doing for a while.
Have you considered looking in a mirror? Perhaps not throwing rocks in your glass house?
Again, sources. Cite something. You have yet to do so in any capacity yet again.
The calling card of the defeated. You claim you're blocking and resort to another leftist tactic.
AlphabeticalAnon ago
Total shitpost. And your usual projection and DARPA. You are already blocked, so you can't message me and your threats carry no weight.
Oh and I never created accounts to look like the mods at GA. Goddamn you keep on making claims that come right out of your ass! And I can show my messages to you to the world too. They would show how you attacked me first. And I replied in kind. You also lie so much you can't even keep track of them. You also attacked Aston first when he was talking NOT to you and you came in and was all flippant over what he said. Then you wentand cried to draaaak (yourself) and got that shit to going. Draaaak's asshole problem was the same as yours HOW DARE you say anything to disagree with meeee! That is NOT allowed! See out points? Big points - you little - we stomp! Wheeee! That's you.
You create such impersonating accounts then use the accusation of it against your victims! And once again, tyrannical asshole, who only wants free speech for himself but not others, you keep droning on about me and someone else being the same but in a court of law we would raze your ass to the ground with facts! I don't care that I use the same language as nigger, faggot and the like! Get over it!
Again, you're fucking crazy and you did NOT defeat me although your little spoiled brat ass would love to think that! If I was defeated, why beat a dead horse? Still feeling the pain of your draaaak being banned?
Yes. You. Are.
kneo24 ago
I have never directly messaged you. The closest I ever got was the modmail system. There's the discussion for the world to see, showing how full of shit you are.
Never claimed you did. @argosciv seems to have never made that claim either in the link I provided above. It begs the question, why bring this up? Feeling guilty?
Do it, faggot.
That is a lie. - I have asked you about this before and you never answered. When did I ever have any sort of conversation with you prior to that?
Clearly you don't mind having your glass house shattered by the stones you throw.
Here's "Aston" responding to your one of your attacks on me. By your logic I'm not allowed to defend myself.
No proof provided once again.
No proof once again.
No proof provided once again.
And, no proof provided once again.
argosciv ago
The fuck's all this about then?
Mumbleberry ago
This is funny; https://voat.co/v/Obscurity/3061525/17088305?context=10