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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7792077? ago
Why are you deleting and posting the exact same comment over and over again? Is it because you assume that, since the admins haven't responded to the pings within the past 5 hours, the admins didn't get your ping at all, and you need to send it again?
That is the exact opposite of what you should be doing. You sent out one ping, fine, it'll show up in their inbox. You send out 100 pings, that's not fine, it is just going to constantly annoy the recipients to have to keep going back to their inbox to get rid of the warning.
Stop acting like you're on some greater level over the rest of the users here because you got what you thought was some praise from Putt at some point in the past. At the best of times, you're not different from the rest of us, and at the worst of times, you're about as bad a "angry spammer" as Amalek and the MH101 bots ever were.
Broc_Lia ago
I think he's doing it to shake off all the negative comments he's getting. They end up getting buried in a string of deleted comments instead of being at the top.
7802962? ago
That would be a decent argument, if he wasn't replying to someone who kept pointing out his hypocrisy and if no one else was replying.
At this point, he literally had to resort to "a comment entirely dedicated to ASCII porn" just to have a comment with more upvotes than downvotes.