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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8469253? ago
CCP restrictions are clear censorship and make a mockery of your marketing propaganda. You should try not to be hypocrites in voat 2.0.
8474669? ago
We're not getting rid of the CCP system, SRS. You're not going to turn this site into a shithole like you did Reddit.
8476454? ago
You know, I don't even know what SRS means... since you're such a nice guy and seem to know everything perhaps you could explain the acronym to me?
Regarding CCP, doesn't the cognitive dissonance sting a little? To call yourself a place of free speech and then blatantly censor people who don't agree with the hive mind has to be a little hard to process?
8488310? ago
Downvoating isn't censorship, quit crying. If you have a negative CCP score it's mainly because you earned it. From the tone of your posts, you sound like a cunt - so that score fits you perfectly.
If I walked up to you in real life and called your mother a whore because you didn't think Ronald Reagan was the tits, how would you respond? You'd hit your real-life downvoat button and either mace me or break my jaw - if not ignore me or call the cops.
8489842? ago
Hey I'm sure you're a cunt too, but that's irrelevant, and you really miss the point. Downvoting isn't censorship, denying certain people the ability to downvote is.
CCP restrictions are censorship: they are determined primarily by how popular ideas are on voat, for example, many people think Trump is the worst president imaginable, and they can't honestly express their opinion on here without attracting a heap of downvotes, and attracting a low CCP score. They've done nothing wrong, they just disagree with the voat hivemind.
While everyone else is downvoting them, they are denied the ability to downvote, they can't upvote more than 10 times a day, the number of comments they can post is severely throttled and they can't even message other users without being messaged first. These restrictions on their free speech primarily based on ideology are censorship. You're really a fool if you think voat is a censorship-free platform for free speech.