Chill on the "threats" Voat (Voat)

submitted ago by PuttItOut

There has been an increasing number of content that is bordering or crossing the lines concerning making "threats." So much so that we have been formally contacted regarding some content. We are better than this.

I'm not a lawyer, and you're not a lawyer, and it isn't Voat's place to defend illegal content. We don't have a staff to review content and don't have a team of lawyers dedicated to deciding what is and isn't lawful. I'm not also into endlessly debating what is and isn't legal as subjects like this often devolve into when everyone at the party is an "internet expert."

We have to deal with this issue and if content is in the grey area, we are going to remove it upon request. We also have to cooperate with law enforcement, I hope everyone fully understands that we are not attempting to operate outside of the law. Voat's purpose is to provide a collusion and censorship free place for discussion, not taking on a government.

It's easy to avoid this entire area: Word content maturely, avoid implicit and explicit language concerning the involvement of violence and the content won't be in question. Simple, so very simple.

After this post there will most likely be "users" testing this line and hoping we remove their content in order to claim censorship on Voat. This is just how things like this work. Don't fall for this Voat. It would be simply incredible if we just worked together on this instead of the typical shit storm posts like this usually generate.

As a reminder: Voat is for your personal, lawful use. See it here: https://voat.co/help/useragreement

That's all. Thanks for reading. Carry on.

Edit:

ProTip: I decided to post this before anything legal would prevent me from doing so. I have a feeling I know where this is going to lead.

I've also updated the canary to reflect this as well (this may be the last time that little guy gets an update, we will just have to wait and see).

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DANKESTGHIDORAH ago

This is literally why you banned me, I saw this shit, too, and tried to squash what I could find with the almighty purple arrow that I thought was supposed to be used in instances of low quality undesirable posts. I honestly want to disassociate myself entirely now because of these posts, getting amplified by these Qoyim ramping up the "them vs us" rhetoric. I got death threats for pointing out lies and inconsistencies in this Q shit. This was the only place I could (somewhat anonymously) put my stupid on display so more intelligent people could set my records straight, the only place where I could be sure to find a group of people who understand the damages caused by these faggots and pedophiles being strung along by Jews, and it hasn't been that place in a long time. I don't even up or downvoat anything anymore because this site's been so fucked already, it doesn't do any good.

PuttItOut ago

Who banned you? And for what? Links please.

DANKESTGHIDORAH ago

https://voat.co/log/banned/user?page=4

Down a bit, near identical name. Go through the dude's comments and you'll inevitably find the type of comments that I targeted. I'm not the most mentally healthy person, I did NOT have a proper upbringing, but I absolutely know better than to ever say some of these things.

CameraCode0 ago

You were banned for vote manipulation, not for threats of violence apparently.

DANKESTGHIDORAH ago

Man, I'd be fucking ecstatic if someone went and killed the Krassenstein faggots. You can't read a Trump tweet without one of those faggots chiming in like a little subversive bitch.

I hope someone finds them and assassinates them.

It all needs to burn and the people trying to prevent it need to be lined up against a wall and shot.

Nope, that's why the only thing, THE ONLY THING, that's going to stop it, is killing them all. Every. Last. One.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: "If you start by killing all the Jewish children, you spoil their plans for domination. They will have to resort to breeding which will impede their progress to such a degree that it will become impossible for them to realize their ultimate plans. The way to defeat the Jew, is to kill all their children. Kill Jew children = save humanity"

What a fucking faggot. It's kikes like him that make me want go out and grab a random Jewish child, pick them up, and slam them head-first into the ground repeatedly.

The entirety of them need to be killed in a purge.

Which is why liberals all need to die and liberalism along with them.

Committed the sin of clicking too many purple arrows next to posts like this. I did it completely with the intent to push them down at least a fraction of a spot, guilty as fucking charged.

CameraCode0 ago

I don't think downvoating a lot of comments is vote manipulation, I think it's using other sockpuppets accounts to downvoat or upvoat as well.

Although perhaps not, because your instance is noted as (-1), meaning you were downvoating the target. Unless you were using another account to downvoat them, that's perfectly acceptable (at least it shouuld be). The voat manipulation thing should only be used for if upvoats are used, because people can make another account and upvoat their own post. I'm. My opinion you really should not have been banned (unless there is something else I don't know of). Perhaps u/puttitout could clarify.

DANKESTGHIDORAH ago

I had a few alts, I barely used them for anything other than as goofy parody characters. I don't have enough motivations to engage in real vote manipulation, that's a form of deception IMO and I'm very against deception. Even if this Q shit is on the "good" side, deception is an obvious theme with their posts, and I posted a list of proven lies or otherwise blatantly false or misleading posts by them, was met with death threats by Qoyim for it.

My alts (that I can remember) were BUKUDUDU, DANKEGHIDORAH, THEOYESTVEY, and TRUMPNPC420. If there were any others I can't remember, the obvious theme of all capital letters was still there.

MinorLeakage ago

I was with you up until this part:

I deleted all my accounts before the banning anyways, I was demoralized at my inability to prevent this rising surge of bloodlust...

That makes it sound like you were using multiple accounts to target one user with dowmvoats. I think that meets the bar for vote manipulation.

Doesn't mean your intent was bad, but I think you're aware of the old "good intentions" problem.

DANKESTGHIDORAH ago

They weren't made with that intention and I have no recollection of ever doing so, I imagine they would have been caught up in whatever targeted me for banning. I brought them up BECAUSE if I WERE guilty of having actively targeting a user to manipulate their CCP, they should have been caught, too. I DO know I ABSOLUTELY used my own account to downvoat every post like that I could find, it would be absolutely strange to me if only my real account got banned for doing what my alts should be guilty of.

MinorLeakage ago

I imagine you were simply caught by an algorithm. If you downvoated a comment/post from your main account, and then did the same thing from an alt, it is literal vote manipulation.

The easiest way to avoid doing it again, if you really didn't mean to, would be to either not create alts, or not downvoat content with them.

DANKESTGHIDORAH ago

I knew it had to be an algorithm that just saw a trend. BUKUDUDU was made explicitly so I could make posts with the intent of pretending to be a nigger, DANKEGHIDORAH was what I had sitting in case nobody got the wordplay in my name (nobody did T-T), THEOYESTVEY was just something I wanted to have, and I made TRUMPNPC420 to get ahead of a user making more TrumpNPC## accounts, I needed dibs on the best number. I pretty much only have a Voat account at this point to save links to rather than making my browser's bookmark page even more bloated.

CameraCode0 ago

If you used your alts to downvoat the same account I can see that. Everyone has a right to speak, even if it's bloodlust. If you used the other accounts to downvoat the same account, that would be against the rules and grounds for banning, idk if you did that or not. Idk I will refrain from making any more judgements on the matter out of fear of getting it wrong.

DANKESTGHIDORAH ago

I honestly don't even think I used them to downvoat or upvoat anything, especially not targeting posts in unison. I made nigger posts with BUKUDUDU a couple times, that's about it honestly. It really wouldn't upset me if I could never post again, I already don't voat on anything just in case I get found guilty of doing it too often to a certain user. I imagined those alts would have been banned since I can't imagine them not being found to be targeting a user down downvoats if my actual account was shut down for doing the very same thing.