Change of Guard (announcements)

submitted ago by Atko

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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Broc_Lia ago

Why should putitout work with you? You're making it sound like you're colleagues or something, or that atko owed it to you to be close to you.

Edit: Before he deleted it, this is what he posted. He has since reposted it, presumably to shake off the replies pointing out his BS:

i pledge to work with puttitout if putt will work with me.

the disconnect with atko and i was that i was intending to be watching him, the watcher.

and he took it as attack instead of voat-defense, free speech - defense.

and that put distance between us.

he stopped responding meaningfully to serious questions

he started shitposting me with disinfo and fallacy.

and the chasm grew :(

i want nothing other than: free speech and no censorship on voat, and voat to be healthy and free and as profitable as it need be without compromising the ethos and idea of the site.

@puttitout first order of business: rehire @atko.

***puttitout make this: https://imgoat.com/thumb/4ca4238a0b/184_md.pngPNG ***

SaneGoatiSwear ago

ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy lmao

that was fast.

shill hard with a vengeance

Broc_Lia ago

Fast is replying to a 2 and a half hour old post?

SaneGoatiSwear ago

oh no my apologies, dear butthurt faggot

i had just written a comment to put

saying something more along the lines of how you responded.

your response doesn't really fit the comment you responded to, though.

almost as though

you responded to the wrong comment.

Broc_Lia ago

My reply fitted the comment you just deleted perfectly.

SaneGoatiSwear ago

ctrl c is your friend!

Broc_Lia ago

ctrl c is your friend!

See, I'm used to dealing with honest people, so there isn't a need to copy their post unless I'm replying separately to different parts. I guess you're just not that honest though.

Almost like this is your job or something.

SaneGoatiSwear ago

personal attack

interesting