Edit:
We are done with the major work. Now we just need to see how it goes.
This evening around 5PM Pacific we will be doing a few things that will require taking Voat down for an hour or two.
We are going to scale down some hardware as we think we’ve found one of the current issues with some higher CPU usage (this has been our holdup on not doing this sooner) as well as adjust some indexes on the database.
Let’s all cross our fingers that we can scale down Voat without a negative result, and if we do see a negative result we will fix it because that’s what goats do. The road may be a bit bumpy but we will get there.
These changes are being done to make room in our budget to bring up the new Voat code base (aka The Port) so we can start testing. While re-coding Voat to run on Open Source platforms we have refactored some larger areas in the code base that lay the framework for some really cool things going forward such as distribution and scaling. We are very excited to get this code in play as soon as possible as it means we can start implementing some of these larger enterprise features as well as new features we need such as "Voats" (Hmm... What could this mean?)
Also, I apologize for my drive by presence as I have real life things going on right now that require my time, such as moving. Moving is horrible. Needless to say, I am now a minimalist. On a personal note, I had 6 desktops computers and 2 4U servers I kept around for no reason at all, what is up with that?
Question: What should I do with old hard drives? Shred?
Edit:
Attn: v/guns, the number of votes on the Canary post
Canary:
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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TAThatBoomerang ago
Whenever I see a "Voat is under heavy load or we're fixing something" I always react positively, because it's a very obvious signal that something's happening and you're working on improving the platform.
PuttItOut ago
I wish I felt that way. I usually have a recoverable stroke.
JohnCStevenson ago
I'm sorry to hear that. But have you thought of the 22 million that would be uninsured under Trumpcare? Or the number of minorities that are beaten due to hateful rhetoric from people like Trump supporters who frequent this site? Have you thought of all of the people suffering under Donald Trump as president? Your website is a breeding ground of hate and fake news, so while you are recovering from your strokes, you should consider the anguish that the hateful people of Voat have put people through. I have suffered plenty of mental stress from having people repeatedly insult my heritage by calling me a kike, and by posting hateful messages against Jews day in and day out. If you recall, I mentioned giving @NeedleStack a temporary ban in the past - perhaps it would be best to shut Voat down for a few days, close the hateful subverses such as v/niggers, v/RidersoftheReich, v/ProtectVoat, and so on. Then, advertisers would flock to your site, and your health, friendships, and hobbies would not be in jeopardy. But if you continue to cater to this hateful audience, my team and I will not rest until Voat is known as a hate site on par with Stormfront far and wide. It will only be a matter of time before Voat is blacklisted from libraries and universities if it goes down its current path, and I will be proud to known that I have helped keep America safe from the racist white men on Voat.
Until then, take care, and examine your options carefully, @PuttItOut. I hope you make the right decision - for your own sake.
Edit: Take care of @Trigglypuff and @kevdude as well. They spout actual Nazi rhetoric, and have harassed me numerous times. If you value your livelihood, I suggest you comply with my demands.
Donky_punch ago
Your mom is a racist white male
9947620? ago
You sound like a National Socialist from your country's "Workers Party", trying to order private citizens into behaving how you want them behaving without a care for what they want.
Next thing you know, you'll be repeating the history you failed to learn from, trying to enact Gun Control on your enemies, causing a Night of the Long Knives when your party has full control of the guns, and locking up the Jews in concentration camps, just as the National Socialist German Workers' Party did under their charismatic failed-degree-in-arts leader Adolf Hitler back in 1930s Germany.
fluxusp ago
As if anyone reads this wall of shit. Go on.
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
I'm glad you waste so much time on this, I hope everything here really upsets you. I hope bothering with this has disturbed your life and taken time away from important things your needed to do
NeedleStack ago
Mmmmm, yes, you're so close! Tell me more, honey.
Ina_Pickle ago
He only has about 100 more points to go. Is it appropriate to have a celebratory post in this situation? A milestone is a milestone right?
Beast-mode-freak ago
-2418 at last count, very close. That is some serious commitment to his trolling/or work, still can't work it out so if he is trolling, that is brilliant.
Cantilever ago
Do the world a favor and kill yourself, kike faggot. Go find a rope and hang yourself. Quit breathing up all the white man's air. At the very least, castrate yourself, so you don't contribute to the gene pool
9947556? ago
Why even waste a good rope? Just follow Chile's example and bring a few along on occasional helicopter rides as "in-flight falling entertainment".
3dk ago
Lmao. If that happened, there would be no one left here to advertise to!
Take your crocodile tears and censorship somewhere else. No one is forcing you to look at Voat. There are plenty of places on the internet that cater to your safespace snowflake demographic.
9947525? ago
I personally like how he casually threw in v/ProtectVoat at the end, like an anti-spam/anti-troll subverse was as bad as "KKK and Nazis" (their groups, not ours).
Obvious shill is obvious.
Grifter42 ago
The thing about JohnCStevenson is that he works for the fuckin' SoapBoxBanHammer crowd, who control /v/protectvoat. He makes anyone who calls them out look crazy. Those fuckers aren't working for the good of the site. They're working to gain control of it. Mick and Kevdude are a couple of faggot powerusers with ties to Hecho. Mick and Putt are buddy buddy, and it shows, because Putt lets those faggots brigade other users and break the rules of Voat.
The SBBH crowd doesn't want people like me calling them out, so they head it off at the pass by using those sort of tactics to pre-bias the crowd.
9954176? ago
Thanks, I needed that good hearty laugh, and nothing truly tickles my funny bone these days like Fake News and blatantly weak lies.
Now, as a regular poster on v/protectvoat who doesn't care that much for SBBH and hates SDBH, I will say this nice and loud so that even you can get the message through your thick skull:
Fuck off, you dumb little troll!
Grifter42 ago
Fuck you, faggot. Kevdude is a major poster on SBBH, and is the admin for /v/protectvoat.
9954311? ago
Fuck you, neoliberal (((multicultural globalist))) shill. Kevdude posting on Mick's subverse doesn't instantly mean that Mick has complete control over everything Kevdude ever touched.
Grifter42 ago
Throw as many buzzwords out there as you want, you're not gonna stop me from pointing out the fact that you fuckers are pulling some shady shit, and manipulating upvotes and downvotes.
9954366? ago
No manipulation required, your comments just suck enough to earn that many downvotes from the Free Speech activists here on Voat. If you don't like it, go crying on over to a "safe space" like HenryCorp's private subverses or Reddit.
Grifter42 ago
"Free speech activists"? That's a fucking laugh. Your people banned me from /v/showerthoughts when I haven't ever fucking posted in it.
You're posing as right-wingers, in order to gain control of the site. You're probably reading a script, or playbook on what to do when called out.
9954611? ago
1, I am not some all-knowing god, so I didn't know about your ban on v/showerthoughts up until now, and because of your attitude, I really don't care about it now that you informed me about it (by acting like I somehow already learned all this before I even started talking to you today). You're just being paranoid now.
2, Your account was banned for being a 'SaneGoatISwear alt' and 'ban evasion' by @SuperconductiveRabbi, so if you have an issue with the ban, go and prove to him that you aren't a "Sane" alt by actually acting like you aren't some paranoid schizophrenic lunatic who is convinced that literally everyone but you on Voat is actively working against you, and you should be able to get the ban reversed (at least until your acting fails and you start sounding just like our resident psycho again).
3, No one is posing as anything. Voat has just as many 4Chan-style National Socialists (which is supposedly different from Democratic Socialism or Communism on some key financial and social issues) as Anarcho-Capitalists and just as many Libertarians as Classical Liberals. The only two things that everyone can agree on are "freedom of speech is essential to the continued existence of our modern societies" and "the establishment politicians on both sides of the aisle worldwide are corrupt and/or incompetent to the very core". Beyond that, there is free discussion and acceptance of anyone who is willing and able to put up a solid argument for their case.
4, This site has no way of forcing any issues aside from the Administrator sticky posts on v/front and v/all and the moderator stick posts on individual subverses. Bots are regularly perma-banned if they try to tamper with votes in any way (up or down, random or targeted), spammers are regularly called out and subsequently banned if they continue spamming post-warning, the code behind the site is regularly worked on as an open-source project by the community as a whole, etc. The only way an issue lives or dies here on Voat is if it can stand based on its own merits.
The left has a very severe problem with Psychological Projection these days (attacking their opponents for secrecy after "you have to vote on the bill to find out what's in it", attacking their opponents for spying after "expanding the NSA's ability to spy on American citizens exponentially, and then using that expanded power to spy on every aspect of the opposition's Presidential campaign", attacking their opponents with claims of racism and sexism after "being the only party that founded the KKK, still views former KKK members as 'friends and mentors', and still thinks that minorities are 'too dumb' to figure out how to get a license or ID {even though they need one just to drive anywhere or buy alcohol legally}" and "routinely getting caught paying their men more than their women and hiring much larger amounts of men into the higher-paying positions within their ranks", etc.), and that problem routinely extends all the way down from the politicians to the voters and paid goons.
I look forward to your upcoming scripted reply posing as a right-winger now that I have yet again called you out in your attempts to forcibly gain control of this site.
Grifter42 ago
You summed everything you just said with the phrase projection. You accuse me of everything you're fuckin' guilty of, and you make a strawman out of what I said.
9954833? ago
I literally just repeated back to you everything that you initially accused me of, and suddenly I'm somehow the one who built the strawman you made attacking me in the fucking first place.
As I said, you're a paranoid schizophrenic who needs time in the Insane Asylum, but instead, someone at the DNC gave you a big bag of money and told you to go attacking Trump supporters on the Internet.
Grifter42 ago
And there's your classic tactic of gaslighting anyone who calls you out. Any fuckin' look at my post history would show that I ain't a faggot democrat, but you shills don't argue rationally.
9955088? ago
I'm not saying you have the post history of a Democrat, I'm saying that you have the post history of a paranoid schizophrenic or someone pretending to be a conservative who is actually focused on "divide and conquer" for placing yourself at the head of any anti-censorship site, both of which are likely to be strategies by Democrat PR groups like ShareBlue that can't compete on the field of ideas with populism and freedom.
Grifter42 ago
Bullshit. Divide and conquer is practically the motto of SBBH.
It's no coincidence that one of the prominent members of SBBH infiltrated ProtectVoat, alongside Showerthoughts, and other subreddits.
You folks use the strategies of creating easily defeated incoherent strawmen to use as upvote farms, and to appear legitimate. In reality, people like JohnCStevenson and Sanegoat are plants, designed to make people who oppose your takeover look crazy. That's why you push the crazy narrative so hard. Because you don't want people to actually scrutinize what SBBH aims to do to this site.
Solstiare ago
Fuck off, and take your marxist cunt cheese Jew fellation with you. And when you get to where ever you fuck off to, fuck off from there also.
MinorLeakage ago
Today I got to experience the joy of being the first to downvote /u/JohnCStevenson, and I have to say, it felt pretty good.
EDIT: Also, fuck yourself you dumb faggot. No one cares at all about your constant Jew-whining.
Marsog ago
Feels good don't it?
VoatUser69 ago
Faggot.