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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We have a zillion small (and a large number of not so small) subs whose mods have come and gone from Voat ages ago. Some as much as 2.5 plus years. There should be an expiration period set on mods. Meaning, if the mod has shown no activity in a sub for six months or a year, he/she should be automatically demodded/removed from sub and the sub shown as available to any user who qualifies. Then, as long as an actual Voat user meets a set of minimal requirements, they can acquire the sub easily, without doing the sometimes lengthy and cumbersome request sub system we currently have. This would greatly help getting REAL mods in subs, and in our effort to combat spam.
EDIT: In other words, to clarify, automatically delete inactive mods after a certain period and replace with a 'YouCanClaimThisSub' as shown in subs legitimately abandoned by their mods.