We may be back (announcements)

submitted ago by Atko

Hey, it's me again, it's been a while!

I isolated the issue and did what I could to bring the services back online.

I am still a bit worried as I haven't heard anything from Putt, but I hope that he's just enjoying a few days off somewhere nice and quiet.

Running voat as a one-man-show is insanely difficult, hats off to Putt for keeping it together, especially with a full-time-job on the side. Please give Putt all the support you can, he definitely needs it. This, once student side-project, has grown to something beyond belief and my initial dreams, and it wouldn't be possible without all of you pulling your weight together. Life is hard as it is, we are brought to this ready-made system with little to no room to change anything, and with free information flow getting more and more difficult, I am worried for the future of mankind in general. Idiocracy (the movie) shows a possible outcome, and I sincerely hope that we don't end up there. Question everything, check your sources, talk to each other in person... and don't get distracted by mindless TV shows, movies, games, apps and god knows what. While you're getting distracted, deals are being made every day to take away more and more of your hard earned cash. (sorry for this rant, but I feel that youngsters need to know before they too get caught up in the machine)

Thank you all for staying put, regrouping on preview.voat.co and all over the web (kudos to 8ch for hosting you (hi Hotwheels!), and even organizing your own instances of voat or other similar software.

I hope to see you soon.

Stay safe.

/drops mic

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crazy_eyes ago

ATKO

Cantilever ago

Nice

BaneGhostiSwear ago

seriously look at the new atko's comments vs. atko's comments from more than 1.5 years ago. they are entirely different people.

BaneGhostiSwear ago

you know, i've been emailing @atko at his personal (but stupidly publicly published) email. he also has a couple phone numbers up on the net out there, if anyone wants to call him and confirm (it's international if you're not in the EU) that the person behind the @atko account is still atif colo. because i sincerely doubt it.

Cum_control ago

@baneghostiswear agreed and its so weird in a place like here that with all the crazy off the wall shit thats said even the slightest hint of thinking atko and putt have been compromised you get bashed and downvoated to hell. That alone makes me think something is even more fishy than it already blantantly appears

derkataIog ago

that's me. i was just @sanegoatiswear for years, but then @puttitout allowed paid shills to tie an auto-vote bot to voat's api, which allowed them to downvoat brigade me -20,000 ccp into account restrictions, locking my account to just 10 comments/posts per 24 hours, and requiring google captcha and tracking to post AT ALL and to start PMs. so i had to start new accounts to be able to continue to "speak freely" ie more than 10 comments a day. lol fun fact: 400+ accounts were banned for upvoting me during that brigade. again, @puttitout banned 400+ users for upvoting me while the shills were brigading my account into the restrictions they coded in after they kicked @atko out. note, if you ask @atko here on voat, on his email, or hey, call him! he WILL NEVER answer any questions about the takeover, what happened, etc, not even to deflect. it's called specific silence and it's the only hint that we can use to infer that Atif Colo has a fucking NDA on his ass, and legally cannot speak about it without serious consequence.

yes i spent 10 months goading out the shills (while they were taking over voat and censoring it, harassing off long-time users, manufacturing drama to remove good mods and replace them with shills, etc, defaming anyone speaking up) to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to the casual eye that they have indeed taken over. see my main @sanegoatiswear's top and bottom most comments and posts to start down the rabbit hole of voat's takeover. :(

i've been growing a team and making a replacement that can't be compromised for the past 6 months, and it ought be a few more months before it's ready, so hold tight.

Alpha_Voat_Protecter ago

tie an auto-vote bot to voat's api, which allowed them to downvoat brigade me -20,000 ccp
400+ accounts were banned for upvoting me during that brigade
puttitout banned 400+ users for upvoting me while the shills were brigading my account into the restrictions they coded in after they kicked atko out

Do you actually have any proof of any of these claims, Sane?

If not, is this just more angry ramblings without a shred of evidence, like you displayed in your comments over a year ago (not just "the past 6 months") when you first started claiming without any evidence that you were being targeted by bots? Back then, I specifically remember that you even called plenty of longtime Voat users 'bots run from Jerusalem' for simply asking you for some actual sources.

i've been growing a team and making a replacement that can't be compromised

'Show me an idiot-proof system, and I'll show you a better idiot. Show me "a system that can't be compromised", and I'll show you worse compromises.'

AKA:

I'll Believe It When I See It.

derkataIog ago

do you have any proof of your claims? i have thousands of archives of evidence, and have linked most of it on voat. that you are too lazy to look it up is on you.

i'm not here to prove to the userbase that SJW shills took over the site. i already did that. that you missed it, again, is on you. you can go down that rabbit hole on your own via my profile page's top and bottom most comments and posts.

you have claimed i said something that i have not.

my favorite thing that shills do is scream: YOU HAVEN"T PROVEN ANYTHING even though i've published hundreds of posts filled to the 10,000 character limit with links to just that. all you've done is suggest that you're a shill alt. not proven, just given me reason to suspect. by all means, continue talking.

"show me a man that doesn't dream, and i'll show you a man that is already dead."

AKA:

i will enjoy your salt.

Mr_Dusk ago

You do realise that Nat Soc types and Antisemitism is a huge thing on Voat due to its free speech policy right? I find it hard to believe that in this environment any Social Justice type would even want to lightly touch this place with a feather on a 100 foot pole.

Alpha_Voat_Protecter ago

I will admit that I haven't been paying as much attention to Voat or the "links proving conspiracy theories" in the past year or so than I did in the 2 years before then, and Amalek's occasional habit of sending me links from some of his alts that data-mined his personal targets made me less inclined to follow random hyperlinks.

I'm saving this comment, and I'll check your links this weekend.

I'm sorry if I overreacted and falsely labeled you a spammer/shill a year ago, my history watching for spammers made me excessively aware of them and their common behaviors, making it more likely for me to see false positives. If nothing else, Voat going down hard for several days showed me that my perceptions of the state of affairs here is very outdated.

european ago

People change

ThorssonTrump ago

dude. look at the top posts on my main @sanegoatiswear. both devs of voat and both devs of voat's main image host sli.mg went and disappeared on the same day. when atko and puttitout returned a month and two months later, their behavior patterns, posting patterns, speech patterns, subject matter focus, how they ran the site - - entirely flipped.

if you don't look at the evidence and decide for yourself, you're just listening to the (((cognitive dissonance)))

crazy_eyes ago

just a little rearranging is all