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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Le_Squish ago
One True Putt is woke as fuck.
fujin ago
This post is VERY VERY telling about @sanegoatiswear. It's starting to make sense, Putt writes "he" in quotations when referring to SaneGoat, in other words Putt is subtlety telling us it's a group or organization orchestrating the actions and direction of that sanegoat account according to what he's seeing on the back end.
This totally makes sense especially when you take into account how myself and others have said SaneGoat seems to have multiple personalities and seems to be working day and night on manipulating the system. (On a side note, I made a post a few months back pointing out how it seemed like someone or some group was trying to test out Voat's system by forcing obviously far left garbage to the front page. Could this be the same group Putt is referencing?)
I wonder what group could be trying to manipulate Voat's userbase actions.
Edit: this is very speculative on my part but SaneGoat would usually call me a
SHILL
and go over all the points of how I'm strawmanning him...
No response... confirmed?
DickHertz ago
If that was the case why not just ban the original account? Is anyone actually going to give a fuck about about it?
8591643? ago
It was probably not blatantly said and the original account not banned because there is no hard evidence. Aside from that it would make sanegoat right, maybe it is just one notsosanegoat with multiple alts? In that case let him just be another crazy - with one account not one thousand - then you can try and train him not to spam.
DickHertz ago
He's (or someone) has already switched to puttitoutisfat or something so at least regex idea only accomplishes getting the sanegoat brand out of the picture not the spamming itself.
It sounded like there was hard evidence but with VPN's in play I suppose you can make things look anyway you want to some degree.
8592069? ago
Or maybe it's just been Amalek in a basement this whole time.