That is really awesome disclosing the particulars of the money that was sent your way. But the people will not be satisfied until you release Voat's tax returns!!!! Seriously what are you keeping from everyone by not releasing your tax returns. I archived the original post and where you said "Total Donations" the original unedited post said "TѲtДl DѲЛДtЇѲns" so WTF is up with that??? I don't want to sound like a hillary shill or nothin but.....

Okay I kid, I kid! You see you can joke with the mods at Voat unlike at fageddit where they will ban you for joking. I was not kidding about being transparent with your donations though. That is extremely welcome and I think in the future you will see that being transparent will encourage even more people to donate because the main reason people don't donate is because they are worried about being scammed. If you donated $5 and realized the thing you were donating to was a scam, you would be out $5 and also be resentful because you got scammed. If someone can throw $5 into the either its kinda like hedging a bet. If the people who received the money are upfront about what they got, then that is really encouraging to people who are on the fence about sending money.

Its good you realize that people who contribute money can be often times digging deep. The internet is not just for people in mamas basement, in fact some of the rhetoric from people who live in mamas basement can turn people off interactive websites like reddit. Voat gives an alternative for anyone who is thinking for themselves. Reddit promotes itself as an easy site to register and post whatever you want and get lots of view but that is not true, specifically the "post whatever you want" part.

I am not gonna get into too much personal details but I got outright attacked on a subreddit called "shit reddit says." This was several years ago and I laughed it off cause I figured that the people compaling were obvious trolls. As it turns out they weren't. They were deadly serious about the criticisms they had about me and their venom (although laughable) was nasty. I realized at that point that reddit had a serious problem, and the best way I could describe the problem is Mental Illness.

How can you explain people who get "triggered" by a posting about a religious anecdote? And I am not talking about someone respectfully disagreeing with something I said, but someone whining about what benign thing I said was "triggering" because they correlated offense to the fact you posted something in a religious context.

How the fuck do you even gain value to your insights when everything you write has to be cross referenced with what is politically correct and must be self censored or moderator censored? You don't gain value to your insights! In fact your thought patterns get damaged cause now you think "Oh I got censored because of what I said, I better not say that stuff again" but who is the authority banning your posts and controlling your thoughts? Cause thats what it is by the way, reddit does not promote individual thought, it seeks to control your thoughts and opinions. Say what you may about The_Donald, they are a bunch of weirdos if you ask me, but also, why are they not allowed to post their posts anywhere else then The_Donald? Wouldn't /r/worldnews like to know that Seth Rich was actually murdered by the Democratic Party? The users may like to know but I don't even know if they care about the truth vs the comfortable lie.

Voat does not censor even stupid opinions, and it does so with a really finely designed user interface. It allows the members of the site to determine whether a post should be upvoated or downvoated. Quality is determined by the merits of the user generated content, not an oligarchy of corrupt moderators.

Voat is needed so much in the current state of the internet. If Voat didn't exist the only site like this would be reddit and they have demonstrated their corruption time and time again. They are a filthy cesspool of brainwashed morons. You can get flagged for hate speech for posting a picture of an American flag and saying "America is awesome".

America is awesome. And so is Canada and New Zealand and Australia and Japan and the rest of the good countries in the world. Netherlands also is fuckin tight. And also I should mention Jamaica cause Jamaica is awesome and I have nothing but good experience with the people down there.

But also fuck reddit, Voat is way better. Stay live and stay happening Voat! And keep you donation option available because some people live paycheck to paycheck don't have the money to donate right now, but Voat users are smart users and we can consider everything and budget for things that we care about.

Keep Voat going as long as you can. Even though you are often compared to reddit, that bullshit site full of idiots is nothing compared to Voat. The existence of Voat is an indicator of a healthy internet. If Voat dies that's like freedom of speech on the internet getting hit by an asteroid. When freedom of speech is being attacked on all front at this time in history, even unassuming Voat will be remembered as one of the last bastions of decent freedom loving folks. Even if sometimes they come across as a little racist lol! You know every black person I know rolls there eyes at racism and just mutters to themselves "People will always be ignorant..." and that is also a valid opinion, that should not be censored!

Fuck reddit, its a cancer on the minds of people. Long live Voat and the extent of internet freedom that it promotes. If you have extra money, consider helping them cause it sounds like they need help.