My worries are that the doxing and minors section will be used to shut down /v/pizzagate and (more likely) the other pizzasgates. Reddit has already used those two to do that anything posted about Alefantis or anyone else (allegedly) involved is "doxing" and any photos are "sexualized content". I think that there has to be some explicit divider between "this guy sucks, here's his phone number" and "here's something I think is newsworthy, including that this person owns this business at this location" situations. (I also think the sexualized content thing is mind boggling. "There aren't any pedos here, but you can't post the photos that they've posted because they sexualize children." Wha?)
I'm down with the voting on rules and mods thing if we can finally do something about the vote farming / botting.
What happens if someone gets doxxed and then it's later discovered they're a Voater? If they get doxxed (or threatened with doxxing) and create an account to shield themselves?
We can only control what happens on this website. That means the only way this rule can work is doxxing accounts is banned. Tying a real person to an account the other way around would still be the same thing. If you're thinking of a news article, we can't control news. I've never seen "Steve Jobs, otherwise known as 420_blaze_it_xxxxx___ on reddit," on a news story.
Do we not assume many who are the unhappy subjects of Voat users' investigatory or editorial subverses are not also Voat users lurking here? If true, might it be important to clarify such a rule to allow publicly available info to be Voat published?
This. As long as what Voaters are doing isn't illegal, the rest of the Net can go fuck itself. Take care of our own house, and the rest of the internet can do the same. Reddit trying to play Savior of the Interwebz is part of the reason for their decline.
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7584437? ago
My worries are that the doxing and minors section will be used to shut down /v/pizzagate and (more likely) the other pizzasgates. Reddit has already used those two to do that anything posted about Alefantis or anyone else (allegedly) involved is "doxing" and any photos are "sexualized content". I think that there has to be some explicit divider between "this guy sucks, here's his phone number" and "here's something I think is newsworthy, including that this person owns this business at this location" situations. (I also think the sexualized content thing is mind boggling. "There aren't any pedos here, but you can't post the photos that they've posted because they sexualize children." Wha?)
I'm down with the voting on rules and mods thing if we can finally do something about the vote farming / botting.
7587447? ago
He did stated that the rules are to protect voat users, and not people outside of voat.
7589220? ago
So long as it's only to protect other voaters, this rule is entirely fair and I will back it 100%.
7624659? ago
What happens if someone gets doxxed and then it's later discovered they're a Voater? If they get doxxed (or threatened with doxxing) and create an account to shield themselves?
7629893? ago
We can only control what happens on this website. That means the only way this rule can work is doxxing accounts is banned. Tying a real person to an account the other way around would still be the same thing. If you're thinking of a news article, we can't control news. I've never seen "Steve Jobs, otherwise known as 420_blaze_it_xxxxx___ on reddit," on a news story.
7598522? ago
Ditto.
7596069? ago
Do we not assume many who are the unhappy subjects of Voat users' investigatory or editorial subverses are not also Voat users lurking here? If true, might it be important to clarify such a rule to allow publicly available info to be Voat published?
7589681? ago
This. As long as what Voaters are doing isn't illegal, the rest of the Net can go fuck itself. Take care of our own house, and the rest of the internet can do the same. Reddit trying to play Savior of the Interwebz is part of the reason for their decline.