Ever since I graduated and moved from Sweden to Switzerland and started my first full time job here in Zurich, working for Voat became increasingly difficult for me. A project of passion and learning turned into one of business administration, community management, and essentially a 2nd job. A nonpaying, yet rather stressful and demanding job.
I started Voat under the name “forbidme” (which later became Whoaverse, which later became Voat) because I wanted to learn more about .NET and web development in general, but as more and more people started to use it, it became clear to me that there was a need for a platform like Voat. I never imagined that Voat would grow this big or mature the way it has. I’ve been through so much with Voat during these past 3 years, and if I could go back in time and face the same challenges, the same victories, and the same defeats - I would do it all over again!
Today though, primarily thanks to PuttItOut, Voat is a stable and scalable platform which happily serves over a million monthly unique visitors. I was the guy who had the crazy idea to start this project but now, 3 years later, I feel that it is time for someone else to assume this role.
Effective as of this announcement, and with a heavy heart, I am resigning as CEO of Voat, Inc. and handing over my role to PuttItOut. PuttItOut has been with me side-by-side through all the ups and downs, all the long nights, all the difficult conversations, all the challenging decisions, and proven he is both committed and capable to moving Voat forward as a platform for Free Speech. I am confident and excited that Voat will do great things in the future.
I will still be at Voat, just in a different role, as a user and member of the community.
To every user I’ve gotten to know, for every funny comment I’ve come across, for every post that has opened my eyes or made me mad, it has all been worth it and I’ll never forget the fun times. Here’s to more in the future, but with a bit less stress for me. ;)
Atko
Edit: canary stuff: https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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Rotteuxx ago
Buddy,
that's what happens when your attitude and demeanour gets on peoples nerves, the message is overlooked because ''fuck this guy''. Maybe changing your strategy and way of things would give you better results, watcha think ?
Broc_Lia ago
For some reason he's deleting his comment and reposting it every time someone replies. Feel free to repost your comment above.
Rotteuxx ago
Thanks for the heads up !
7792166? ago
I think he actually believes that his pings aren't going through (because he actually believes that the admins think he is, as r/The_Donald would say, "Top Kek", and that they would normally instantly see any of his pings/messages and respond to them) and that he needs to resend the pings (along with the rest of the copy-paste comment {because it was written so well the first time, with proper capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar /S}), so in an attempt to not look like a spammer, he is deleting the copy-paste comments around the same time he reposts them.
In short, he is acting like an arrogant idiot (or, as they say in Mother Russia, a mu`dak (which can also be translated as "asshole").
SaneGoatiSwear ago
sorry
Rotteuxx ago
Thx for proving my point with an example, buuuuuudy !
SaneGoatiSwear ago