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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8451392? ago
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?
Fiscally: Paid accounts for advertisers. ALL of them will be marked as advertisers/companies but they can submit content like any other user. It forces the PR teams to actually put in some fucking effort. They can also pay for stickied posts(to mitigate DV brigading). They sign contracts that they can/will be sued if they are found to be manipulating votes. Advertisers are a necessary evil for sites like this, and if you set hard rules now it will instill trust in the community that they aren't being manipulated.
Features: Host your own videos,shows, and content. Like youtube or twitch.tv 2.0. It's a forum with it's own content hosting to prevent content being removed. There will be legal issues here, but you can make it that only OC will be allowed to be hosted. No re-hosting. People can follow users on their videos, streams, and posts. It will also hold some users accountable for what they say/do on the site. Remove the DV/UV system. There are probably better ideas on what to replace them with but you could have silent voting. Users don't get to keep tabs on their UV/DV. ALL submissions should be anonymous, but show up in the users submissions on their CP page. This helps in a couple ways. It forces people to look at the content of what is posted and not just the user who posted it (too many grudges on sites like this from little crybabies), and it keeps people from farming points to sell or use as influence later. GET RID OF ALL INTERNET POINTS. It can never be about the content AND the votes. It's one or the other ultimately. People will be less likely to post things that get them DV's. And people create bots to post shit over and over and over to gain SCP. Put a search bar right on top, there are thousands of subverses. Make finding them easier. I don't want to post everything to v/whatever because it sucks to find the right sub.
And for the 100000000th mother fucking god damn time, HAVE A SYSTEM TO VOTE OUT MODS. Mods do not OWN the sub. They are the rent a cops for the SITE and it's USERS. The USERS build up subs, the mod should be there because they ENJOY it, that's it. Mods don't own popular subs just because they happened to squat on it first.
I would not bring on corporate investors, and I would never give up more than 49% of the company total if I did. If you have mountains of cash from investors, just let us know now and end it. It's over. It will never be free speech in the long run.
piratse, out.
8451697? ago
Don't go for sueing, go for a fixed penalty payment that is contractually agreed upon. No trial, no lawyering eating up the time of the admins, just a straight payment. Repeat infractions lead either to escalating payments and/or the right of Voat Inc to terminate the contract entirely.