It seems to me that "purging" under option 1 is just another form of censorship, just one that you happen to be comfortable with. I don't see any difference between disabling the subverse (i.e. killing its message) and purging the mods (i.e. killing the messenger). All the options that you have presented involve modifying a discussion that you don't like - which is clearly censorship.
So if you are going to chose to censor things on voat, at least have the balls to acknowledge what you are doing and don't pretend you aren't stepping down to the exact same level as reddit. In fact, its funny that when voat starts to deal with the EXACT SAME PROBLEMS as reddit, they respond in the EXACT SAME WAY; exerting controll rather than letting the community thrive on its own. If you don't like the subverse, then block it. If you want control of the subverse, tough, go start one that has a similar name and start a more popular spinoff.
But if you do any of these options, then you have taken a large leap towards undoing the entire purpose of this site and it will immediately become just a reskinned reddit.
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It seems to me that "purging" under option 1 is just another form of censorship, just one that you happen to be comfortable with. I don't see any difference between disabling the subverse (i.e. killing its message) and purging the mods (i.e. killing the messenger). All the options that you have presented involve modifying a discussion that you don't like - which is clearly censorship.
So if you are going to chose to censor things on voat, at least have the balls to acknowledge what you are doing and don't pretend you aren't stepping down to the exact same level as reddit. In fact, its funny that when voat starts to deal with the EXACT SAME PROBLEMS as reddit, they respond in the EXACT SAME WAY; exerting controll rather than letting the community thrive on its own. If you don't like the subverse, then block it. If you want control of the subverse, tough, go start one that has a similar name and start a more popular spinoff.
But if you do any of these options, then you have taken a large leap towards undoing the entire purpose of this site and it will immediately become just a reskinned reddit.
IMHO of course.