Now that I have your attention, I have a confession to make: I lied.
Well sort of… because Voat 2.0 doesn’t exist yet, but it will in the future, and this thread is the first in a series of Quarterly Reviews we will be doing to get your feedback on what we need, what we need to improve, and the direction we need to move as a company and as a community.
I can finally announce that Voat’s features (software-wise) are now in the ballpark of a semi-functional platform. I’m not saying Voat is perfect, nor am I saying the features are mature, rather I am saying that we are nearing "acceptable" as a basic functioning platform.
But a basic functioning platform was never our end goal, it was just the first milestone we needed to hit. Now that we are approaching this milestone we need to lay out our future direction.
Voat doesn’t want to be a “clone” any longer. We want to stand up and proclaim our uniqueness. We want to put our differences on display and stake our future on them. Voat can’t survive without redefining ourselves, without evolving into something bigger, something better, something unique and new.
This is the post where we get to dream big, have no boundaries, no constraints, and live in world where everything is possible.
Hypothetical
You have an army of programmers, mountains of cash to burn, and you are the only board member: What does Voat 2.0 look like?
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8451545? ago
allow a linked post to have a block of text at the top, just like a self post.
What i present next is a lot of work, but would be interesting to see happen. allow anyone to be a moderator of any sub, but make it so that the users can turn a moderator on and off. So if we just wanted the spam removed we could just have a moderator selected that was known for doing a good job at stopping spam; if we wanted it to be just like reddit, then we could have a bot that deleted posts based on key words that might trigger people, etc. These mods would have statistics, like how much they have removed, we could see what they removed, how many people were subscribed to them, etc.
Basically if people wanted 100% uncensored voat, they could, and if people wanted a reddit super-hug-box, they could have that as well.
My prediction is that the people like that on reddit, only want that so that dissenting ideas don't get spread, and they don't really care about it for themselves, so i think that there would end up being no SRS type mods at the end of the day, but it would keep everyone honest.
8456474? ago
wouldn't this basically be twitter?: "following" mods and subverses replacing hashtags.
8453286? ago
you mean cater to retarded nigger faggot pro-censorship dickless bitchtits?
no.