This website has already lost its way; and this particular sub-drama is merely a symptom and not the cause.
There are dedicated teams whose job it is to identify "potent" posters to humiliate in real life. These teams follow potential targets and document everything while also trying to bait the targets into saying something "beyond the pale".
This particular sub-drama is one manifestation of the strategy, although it's aimed perhaps at low-hanging fruit rather than a truly "potent" target.
Voat is already compromised. I don't think we can fix it, unfortunately. We can only mitigate the damage by switching users or going anon; and even this is only a temporary solution - as deep analysis can identify the same user under different aliases.
I say purge the mods and make it an anon sub. But in the long term, start planning to move.
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This website has already lost its way; and this particular sub-drama is merely a symptom and not the cause.
There are dedicated teams whose job it is to identify "potent" posters to humiliate in real life. These teams follow potential targets and document everything while also trying to bait the targets into saying something "beyond the pale".
This particular sub-drama is one manifestation of the strategy, although it's aimed perhaps at low-hanging fruit rather than a truly "potent" target.
Voat is already compromised. I don't think we can fix it, unfortunately. We can only mitigate the damage by switching users or going anon; and even this is only a temporary solution - as deep analysis can identify the same user under different aliases.
I say purge the mods and make it an anon sub. But in the long term, start planning to move.