I’ve banned all Sane alts (while leaving the main account alone) for spamming. If Sane (or his group) wants to post on Voat, they can do so without using alts to hide behind, thus preventing their main accounts from being downvoted and thus restricted. I am done letting this group stomp all over Voat unfettered* like a spoiled toddler and pushing me to enact draconian rules to prevent them from doing so.
Don’t for a second be fooled at the motivations this group has for Voat, they seek not to help. They seek only to force censorship, drive away users, and ultimately destroy Voat while ruining Voat’s commitment to Freedom of Speech. I will not let them win.
They setup an unwinnable situation for Voat, and no matter Voat’s action, they can claim a victory.
If Voat bans them, they claim censorship. If Voat does nothing, reasonable users depart. Regardless of the action, a user subset will be infuriated, and this is entirely the purpose, divide and conquer. We all need to recognize exactly what is happening here. This isn’t about a single user, this is about an organized effort.
If you ever wondered why Reddit has so many private and obfuscated areas in code, fuzzed counters, shadow bans, etc.? It is to stop groups like this. The problem is, as you all know, once this code is implemented it can be used for both good and evil. I choose not to use the little time available on such things, and will instead ban users who engage in Amalek/ManHood101 style spamming in order to maliciously claim censorship later.
A user is free to say whatever they wish, but if they resort to using alt accounts in order to circumvent the protections we do have, these alt accounts will be banned for spamming.
I’m also pulling Sane off v/TIL and v/ReportShills and moving both to @system. Both these subs were transferred to “him” and “he” has not been a good steward. What a joke. Enough of this as well.
* Screenshot taken from statistics page located at https://voat.co/statistics
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ExpertShitposter ago
Thank you for putting your foot down regarding these issues. A lot of us have been disappointed and demoralized after the latest explosion of spam since no action was taken a few days ago. I am also glad that you know that this isn't an "eccentric" user, but a group trying to shut us down. And you should know that the whole community equipped with IQ is behind you 100% and fully aware that this has nothing to do with the beginning of censorship but simply removal of a paid agitator.
You said that you don't want to invest time into "star-force defense code", but ban manually, and that's ok but just be aware that this isn't over not even with this group, on top of future groups that will surely be arriving as the user base increases.
For this reason you should feel free to remove the original sane goat account, since "he" will cause trouble again and is simply not a real user. All his earlier participation was for the soul purpose of building up CCP before he knew how to make upvote bots.
He has already spammed more crap with his main account and somehow started a sanegoatiswear1 alt that has already banned us all from TIL again! https://voat.co/v/TlL/modlog/banned
On top of that he deleted ALL posts ever made to TIL.
Ps, im sure @kevdude as well as many others are dying to know if there will be any action taken regarding the remaining cancer mods siting in v/chicago, v/canada etc.
ExpertShitposter ago
@PuttItOut pinging you just to make sure i get your attention my comment above. ↑↑↑
He has already somehow started a sanegoatiswear1 alt that has banned us all from TIL again AND deleted ALL posts ever made to TIL.
Probably time for the full purge as he obviously isn't a real user but a paid agitator with no fear or care for his main account. He has many others anyway, believe me.
8588662? ago
disable custom CCS, that sub only has 3 subscribers.
The sidebar is deceptive:
8589659? ago
That'd be kind of cute if it wasn't pure faggotry. Dude's made out of autism or something.