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You're all over everything, of course you've done a good job. Nothing wrong with scaling back. As for me, I only use Reddit if it comes up in search results, I'll get some basic information off there but I never felt the need to make an account. Voat is a different experience. It's worth every minute I spend here. I'm grateful I get to be here and learn from amazing people.

A microwave oven is one of the most popular kitchen appliances these days. kitchenappliancestips.com/

If reddit 'neutral' content is what you wanted you could just write a webscraper to copy over the content from reddit to neutral subs.

Problem fixes itself in time.

Paraphrased lesson learned from the book “Good to Great”: the difference between a good leader and a great one is the ability for the great leader to leave while all of the mechanics of what he put in place continue to run without issue.

Strive for greatness!

You have done a fantastic job and during these politically stressed times, voat is exactly what we need even if 4x4 forums are not at the forefront of the pages. When our war of subversion is over and we have won, then we can flood voat with good times and great embarrassing photos of our follies.

sockpuppet for who? this is my only account.

Racism speaks on voat. Even racists deserve free speech

Yes continue. It is precisely because you offer an alternative for free speech that I am here. Free speech is needed for controversial topics, not safe topics.

Please get volunteers to help run the site.

I actually just migrated from reddit, because they no longer allow me to browse on my mobile without either downloading the app or logging into an account. That just didn't sit right with me so I started looking for alternatives to reddit on search engines and that's how I ended up here. I have to say that while I don't necessarily agree with all the comments, i feel like they are more verbose on average and you can follow the thought process of the poster. I recommended a friend come check you guys out. Wish I could do more to help you thrive!

Can we unstick this sticky?

Please use only libre/open source technologies for Voat. Reddit used to be much more open technologically and technopolitically in this sense, but with the years they have removed any mention of this being a priority. Many people in the tech community would greatly appreciate this and would support a platform that held this as one of their core ideals without unnecessary compromise.

If you care about freedom of speech, you should also care about the freedom of your users over their computing. Don't imprison them into yet another proprietary platform.

Thank you for all the work you have done so far and plan to do in the future. A public forum is an indispensable part of a functioning and prospering society. I hope Voat continues to be great and even greater with libre technologies underlying it.

IT Director here. Making a site like this is a major undertaking, and you've done a phenomenal job with the resources you've had. Don't let this shit get you down. Keep your ideals, and never give in like those cocksuckers at Reddit. You're better than that.

I don’t know the solution to this

I do!

TRUTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN FREEDOM.

If Voat is a home for truth–cited, sourced, proven–and only truth, it differentiates itself from Reddit. “Free speech” is how the kikes take over. It’s how they spread porn. It’s how they removed cultural beliefs from school. It’s why COMMUNIST BRAINWASHING ISN’T ILLEGAL.

Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good. – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now, in before “HURR DURR U WANT LIMIT SPEEEEEECH”

So you want to allow jews to spread lies to commit genocide on whites and destroy the only civilization that humanity has ever had? Here’s the thing about free speech: Go fuck yourself. That’s the thing. Don’t like it? Tough shit. It’s free speech. Know what else? I CAN SAY I WANT TO “LIMIT” FREE SPEECH IF I WANT TO (I’m not). THAT’S ALSO FREE SPEECH.

But you know what else else? Every. Single. Other. Website. On. The. Fucking. Internet. has “free speech.” Go there. Seriously, go there. Go speak “freely,” as long as you conform to the neoconservative marxist worldview. Every one of them. But you know what? Voat and 8chan. That’s it for truth. That’s all that exists. Those are the only two websites where you can, literally, tell the truth. Truth is banned and deleted everywhere else.

And so you cocksucking faggots come in here, with your MARXIST BRAINWASHING, and you scream like toddlers (because you were raised on the idea that this is how you get your way) about WE WANT FREEEEEE SPEEEEEEEEEEEEECH and you have no fucking idea what that means. No goddamn clue. It means sockpuppets. It means bots. It means vote manipulation.

“Free speech” is “democracy”, which is communism. It means tyranny of the majority. It means AS LONG AS YOU CAN FAKE A MAJORITY, YOU CAN CONTROL ALL OPINION.

And so if you ALLOW anyone to say anything without restriction, truth doesn’t win. Ever. Jews win. Always. Because there aren’t restrictions.

This is just a statement to be made. It’s not even a desire for policy. Either Voat is a place for “free speech”–and it is therefore like every single other website on the internet: CONTROLLED BY JEWS AND USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THEIR PROPAGANDA–or it’s a place that PROTECTS TRUTH, and all that that implies.

Honestly, I hate THAT fucking retardation more than the jews’ outright statements. I really do. If a jew says, “All thoughts other than those which support my jewishness should be punishable by death,” I hate that less than a shabbos goy who says, “We have to destroy any place that doesn’t support free speech.” Because the former is just an enemy. The latter is a traitor, who works for the enemy.

This place is fun and feels free, you've done a good job man. Reddit will get too full of itself and nosedive at some point if it doesn't turn things around. Keep going dude.

You guys are fighting a worthy cause by standing up for free speech. The people who attack you and shut down your payments are the authoritarians no matter how they try to paint themselves.

As for balancing the content, it's tough, I would make a call to anyone reading this and is a regular here to share some PC content when you are also sharing some non PC content. It's unfortunate how the world works but it does work this way and we must live in the real world.

If you can without wearing yourself out, or driving yourself crazy, and without going into debt, yes.

"A majority of Voat users still use Reddit" Source? Don't bullshit us Putt.

Oh man this better stay up I hate going to reddit

This shithole is dead already. When the retarded trump brigade set in all hope was lost. Can't wait till these losers log on one day and it's all history. By recent history these lonely freaks will lose their minds.

Pro Tip from a chan user of nearly a decade

You gotta market better nigger. BADLY! This place has such potential, and is the 4chan of Reddit equivalent. I actually respect this place...due to it's free-speech clause.

I came to know VOAT when Pizzagate was killed everywhere BUT here. Even over my homeland /pol/. It was where I did my research at. And others, who were like minded, could link up and discuss in more in-depth style research due to DM's. Don't delet VOAT.

Good observations. I've never registered on Reddit, for the record. Perhaps it's my age, but I got all the non-controversial online conversations out of my system about thirty years ago. Even back then, before the internet, non-controversial topics did not hold people's attention for long.

So don't worry, have patience. Persevere. Don't confuse a change in the state of your world with the overall trajectory of it.

HOW CAN I DONATE?

Reddit thrives off of ads and gold getting dished out all day by gay wads.. Can I just send you like $5 /month or something?

looks like a full disk again :(

"free speech" doesn't inherently mean that a website will become a cumbox of nazis, pedophiles, etc. you're using post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning to rationalize the shithole this place is. plenty of other "free speech" websites are less shit.

the nazis and other shitheads here are completely incompatible with any kind of community that doesn't conform, because an exclusionary philosophy is at the crux of their being.

I haven't cheated on voat with reddit since gamergate was still relevant.

On that logic, you might as well worship Spez.

I do still go to Reddit to talk about sports, but for what it's worth, Reddit still hasn't proven itself as a civilized place to go if you're looking for an intellectual discussion. Like you said, that doesn't mean that Voat's taken its place, because it's dry on neutral discussion, but at least it means that Voat isn't "losing" on that front.

Honestly, as someone who has never really been heavy into Reddit and wanting to have a lot of high hopes for Voat here it's gotten to a point where I find myself wanting to leave and never look back. Overall, I've liked the site and how it looks and operates. It's clean, has a much better look than Reddit, and just overall is easier to browse. On top of that, I really like the name, icon, and how each section is called a subverse (/v/) all feel a lot better than Reddit with it's clunky looking icon and subreddits (/r/) always feeling like a dumb name to me.

The problem I have is that I have no drive to interact. Sure this may be in part because I'm anti-social, but when I come onto the site to see what's up and my homepage is nothing but "niggers fighting" "look at this gorilla faggot" "nigger bitch gets a taste of the superior race" which is nothing of what I'm subscribed to and have blocked numerous subverses because that's just not what I'm coming here to see and not what I'm interested in at all, it becomes very off putting. It doesn't help that this is all you see on the front page along with "NWO" "They're censoring us" at anything (to which there are times where it's legitimate) when you're not logged in, which is bound to have newcomers turning around and saying "Nah; fuck that." but hey, front page is front page.

Add to this that most of the things I'm interested in and subscribe to like /v/writingprompts, /v/blender, and /v/gaming are either dead or just slowly being filled with the same shit (often because they're dead and no one cares anymore). Unless you are participating in the toxicity there's simply nothing to do, and people are so quick to shout people out, talking about "well fuck off back to reddit, we don't want to fragile ass here you bitch snowflake" without seeing that these people do leave and you should want them here to broaden out the ecosystem so the user base and support for Voat can grow.

Instead it's dying, and Voat is getting weaker because of it. It's painful to see because I want it to grow and be successful, especially because Reddit (much like YouTube) needs a competitor to rise up and get them off their fucking asses, but instead the site that so faithfully serves us is being suffocated by it's own user base and I'm not sure whether to classify it as betrayal or suicide.

Whatever, I'm signing out. Can't really post much without points I don't have because I don't have a reason to join the conversation. Sooner or later I'm going to give up and delete my account and then I guess I'll join the hundreds of other ghosts of this once promising platform. Until then, I'm trying to hold out, hoping there becomes reason for me to continue supporting. Though that wire of fraying thin, that candle of hope is dimming, and I've run out of fucking metaphors.

Not at one time you dumb mutated product of incest.

".... developers of the website were subsequently approached by venture capitalists interested in investing in the project."

This site is a controlled op, or did you think is was a bastion of freedom, taxpayer money funds it so I pay your wage foo. Putitout is a front, a cardboard fuckin cut out, go back to screwing your sister , inbred redneck.

Hey now I created a reddit account, the only reddit account I now use under the alias "Use_VOAT_Instead", I also go there to tell them things they normally would not hear but more tailored to their sensitive ears.

Though the neutral content thing is a real thing and totally exists. I'd prefer more active communities on here that don't revolve around "MUH JEWS" or "MUH GLOBALISTS".

Thank you @puttitout for everything. You are awesome! ♥

personally, i do wish voat was a little more mainstream with more 'popular' content but not so much that i would want it to turn into a reddit. I never have even been a reddit member (4chan on the other hand....)

I see it's ok with you that this site is run, AND PAID FOR, by government intel, even manages to pay wage slaves like you.

Give it time for the gullible masses to see through reddit's censorship and propaganda. It's getting worse.

This proves you are the dumbest asshole here. I had one, deleted, left. Repeat. Repeat. Not complicated. Stop downvoating me with your Crensch and other accounts loser.

I search several sites but have neither posted nor commented on any of them except one time on Steemit. All of my postings and comments are for VOAT, exclusively, and it would be very, very sad if VOAT disappeared.

Life comes at you fast sometimes. I know that I, and likely a majority of the rest of us, appreciate your candidness in this status update, wish you and yours the best going forward, and appreciate the effort(s) that you can put towards continuing to make things great here at Voat.

I've jumped ship from the big R, and have no intention of going back. Voat has taken its place in my daily rounds, and I look forward to whatever uniqueness is planned down the road from here.

Cheers mate.

thanks for info

:) hugs @PutItOut

I never go to reddit. I love voat. It is a place where you don't have to walk on eggshells. In this day and age whe have to have filters. It is essential to our mental health to be unfiltered every now and then. Putt, you are our hero and mental health pro.

I hope voat stays up. The platform is so much quicker to get narrow-interest news out or broad news out instantly.

Thankyou Putt.

Right boys.

Two things: dump reddit for your 'every day things' and start using Voat. Post everything you would normally do - PC or not PC. There's been an increase in them recently and I'd like to keep that going.

We can have both.

How do you plan to prevent Governments and others with large amounts of resources from abusing a system that allows "rule by majority"? The mass creation and management of accounts across different IP's is a very simple problem. It's already an issue here.

Putt, THANK YOU. You're doing God's work, my friend.

Let us donate! Make a link and sticky it. Let us back you up!

Great.

https://www.blockchainhelp.pro

I was kind of blaming my self I thought some of my OP were not correct for the readers. I am in awe of you because you have taken on a great task. Thank you for your time and attention.

All I have to say is what interesting timing for the site to appear up at first glance - but then realizing no one had made a submission in X hours during a time where many were monitoring the election processes in CA - preview site was down totally this time, and we get a quick fix & explanation after crunch time passes. Makes me want to start browsing the lesser gnown subverses and see how quick the black helicopters come. I dindu nuffin yaldabaoth.

Make a pass for 5 bucks a month. You get paid and voat pays you.

Problem solved

For some reason this site turned from a free speech alternative to Reddit into an alt-right echo chamber.

Voat is my go to website. I really appreciate all you do to keep it up and running. That is all.

Put, I never use reddit, and I surf voat every day. Phrase keep up the good work and I'll send you a donación.

Speaking of: when I created my account I was pissed off and made a stupid fucking name. It's there a way I can change it without making a new account?

I'm thinking cock gobbler.

Thoughts?

I use Reddit primarily for T_d and greatawakening and this is my first time logging into this site in like a month.

You’re the reason that this revolution will not fail. It will succeed because of people like you and I’ll try to stay active as often as I can.

Lemme guess , Soros was the investor and your his antifa shill, fuck off Nazionist.

New addition here, testing the free speech thing. I'm censored everywhere else (and on the FBI watch list) because I won't stop telling. I'll spare you the details.

I agree that Voat is all bad news forcing me to browse Reddit, but I'm more concerned that Queerness2 can ban me for calling him out for censoring which triggered a global ban so I can't delete my account.

Oh, look: All the top replies are SRS/SBBH/JIDF.

You are nothing but a puppet for a honey pot, you fucking kike.

I think there's a time and place for everything, but appropriately distributed is the key. You don't talk to your mates the way you talk to your mother, and vice versa; I think that kind of attitude was expressed on pre-PC crackdown reddit when a lot of the now banned subs were allowed, you would go there to vent and you'd be civil on the other main subs that weren't dedicated to fat people hate or whatever your interest is.

STAY THE COURSE.

Also, death to all kikes and niggers.

"In early July 2015, following the dismissal of a popular administrator on Reddit, another influx of Reddit members registered with Voat,leading to traffic which again caused Voat to experience downtime. The developers of the website were subsequently approached by venture capitalists interested in investing in the project."

Could you tell us who the "venture capitalists " that invested are ?

Frankly the only reason I'm here is for fatpeoplehate.

Thank you for all you do.

Reddit is ugly! VOAT is wayyyyy prettier. Jus’ sayin’.

P.S. I NEVER USE REDDIT. Also can you help me log into my old user account. Someone anyone ...

<3 conspiracyqueen aka @conpiracyprincess

He is right. I use Reddit since the subs for a lot of things here lack content.

I guess iPhone and Android apps probably aren't an option. Voat has stirred things up quite a bit. I don't think of it as a clone site. I think of it as a site for specialists. I don't want it to be like Reddit, I like that it's held to a higher standard, and the people here are a higher percentage of focused. Don't give up man, so many articles are stolen from voat users work, so much is uncovered by voat users. Reddit is like voat for beginners if you ask me. It's like when we (voat) had the internet and others had AOL... I'm glad we're here and they're there. I have never been a regular user of Reddit, BTW, but have been of voat since the beginning.

Thanks. If anyone here has any time to help a genocided mother, please give me some tips on how to find info on child trafficking funding data. I need to be able to track down money trails to demonstrate not only how many dollars the state of Idaho is making off of my 4 children, but also how many dollars a certain CASA agency is getting for the kids they are trafficking, as well as ascertain the well being (or not) of the children they have sold. Thanks to anyone willing to take a minute.

I only ever use reddit because there's not many people active on my local's subverse, sending out posters voluntarily is a good idea but people only ever sign up for an alternative if they have a problem with the flagship, and people are also way too sensitive these days too, not just because some having extreme opposition against things like "there's only two genders." but the reason why I never wanted to go on these sites at all was because I was scared of my ISP and government seeing this, now I just don't give a shit, essentially this platform is restricted by fear.

I think voats doing just fine man. I guesse its frustrating for you it's not growing like it should?

But I for the most part got no major complaints.

Also, people don't like the truth...its not just about neutral. It's about the fact that voat routinely pumps out so very hard, cold, dark, truths. THAT is always going to drive a shit ton of people away. People hate that shit.

Thanks for keeping it going. I don't use reddit anymore and I don't see this as a problem to be fixed. Voat is fine the way it is, it shouldn't aim to become the next reddit.

As I've said many times before, I think (compulsory) democracy is a mistake, the site will end up being run by brigades and alts.

I only went to reddit once to find out why voat wasn’t working. It was like internet kindergarten.

I've deleted accounts that I had in the past. I made this one. I'm not new. This isn't too complicated to understand asshole.

Thanks Putt, you're awesome!

Hang in there and Reddit will hang itself in time, and more first-run content will flow here. Even without that, having a place for the non-PC content is important too, don't pin your evaluation of the successfulness of the site simply on how mainstream/PC it becomes.

Leaders and heroes are by definitely not the masses.

I read reddit. I don't use reddit for anything but OPs.

Ohhh for crying out loud Put.....I'm not a baby and I don't need to see you prance around here on these pages everyday to know you are active with your site and doing things with it behind the scenes that we may not all know about or even understand.

I saw your post where you have sooo many other things in your life and am aware, and smart enough, to know --- there's a guy that has a LOT on his plate and I hope he is successful in what ALL he does.

I appreciate this website more than you know, and the crap I get away with here is unlike ANY other site. I can express myself and not get banished to faggot-hell and back, and I appreciate being able to VENT and express myself. To me, that alone is priceless, and whatever you do that keeps things going is fine with me. I'm generally nice to everyone here, but there are those refugee morons from 'other' sites that want to drag this site through the SJW-mud, and I don't like that, so I mouth-off about it.

As far as I'm concerned, I think you do a terrific job, and all the pansies that piss and whine about you being here or not, they should be told to go back to [d]reddit and crawl into their safe space and sob. Instead of bitching about what you aren't doing, why can't they appreciate what you DO do? I appreciate what you do. I couldn't do what you do. I wouldn't want to.

If you have things to get done here....fine.....do them. Do them as you can, when you can. Is the world going to implode of you don't? I see little glitches here and there, but so what. I couldn't care less. How big a problem are they, really?

You don't owe [me] any accounting of your activities. You can't have a site like that and NOT be working on it. What kind of dumbass would think otherwise? I appreciate your doing it, and couldn't do it myself, so why should I judge?

You have a GREAT website, and all the whining pains in the ass......send them to ME.

You are appreciated, and valued a great deal, so just keep doing what you're doing and know that it works just fine.

You're right, I still use Reddit, but I find myself using Reddit less and less. I just wish there was a way to get voat's numbers up so subs like fitness would be interesting.

Hey the heck since reddit has banned uncensorednews I haven't visited that place. So voat we can use Stumble upon to get new content which can be posted here.

I came from Reddit due to the redesign to see what Voat was still like. I'm glad to see you're still around. I agree that this site has become very unfriendly. The majority of the posts on the front page are so offensive I wouldn't blame someone for not trying it. In it's current state I can't recommend anyone look at Voat as it would look bad on me. I hope that the site finds a way to become less offensive so that it becomes a site I can enjoy spending time on.

While I think the featureset of community regulated rules and such is interesting, it's not going to improve anything.

The issue you're mentioning is one of the user base, it's far too imbalanced. Letting those same people make rules, policies, and so on will just compound the issue, not fix it. That's just tossing more tools into the echo chamber.

If you want to attract a more balanced audience then you need to accept the fact that just because free speech is good, doesn't mean all speech is equal. Stop promoting content from the far ends of the spectrum on the main page where it drives off new users. The vast, vast majority of people don't want to see that. And for those who do, they can browse and search for it with no issue.

Either Voat stops being so one-note and gets a fighting chance at long term survival or it continues down this path of catering to a vocal minority that will never be big enough to sustain the site.

And those on the far ends of the spectrum need to face the reality that if they want to have places like Voat to discuss their topics, it's in their best interest that these platforms reach and maintain a critical mass of users that will let them survive.

No, I deleted my accounts. Duh.

Stop downvoating me with your alt Crensch

I find Voat interesting for the unvarnished stupidity and prejudice on display here. It's very refreshing and I hope it never changes. This is a haven for stunted individuals who will never amount to much--it gives the place lots of character.

I love Voat. I love y'all.

A majority of Voat users still use Reddit.

• Yup, me too.

People use Reddit for posting and interacting when it comes to PC topics (4 wheel drive subs, movie subs, book subs, etc.).

• Reddit has so many more users that their niche topic subs have many, many more participants in them...thus a greater potential for good content here or there.

They use Voat to post the things they can’t post on Reddit. This creates an imbalance where Voat becomes increasingly un-PC, while Reddit gets the neutral content (I know even the most hardened ideologue has a level of civility). The end result is this imbalance drives people away as people wear out when confronted by content like this over the long run.

I don’t know the solution to this, and I am not attempting to pass blame, I am simply stating a truth that has to considered.

• This is true and this is a toughie. Creating more filters and easier to use filters would help in allowing each new user to better tailor his own experience with Voat. Also, as time goes on, more and more users will probably migrate from Reddit to Voat because an ever growing list of topics will be designated as taboo and un-PC. Reddit could slowly collapse and Voat could slowly gain their userbase. Once Conde Nast figures out that they can't make any money on Reddit, they will sell it to someone else, who will in turn try to totally whore it out, at which point Voat would gather the rest of their userbase...and they won't have a Reddit worth going back to. There may be some other smaller social media link aggregate sites like Snapzu and other obscure ones that Voat can poach from as well. Perhaps the Normies and the Crazies can coexist with the right filters in place. If you can get the help that you need to keep the site going day-to-day and play the long game, I think you can slowly unseat Reddit, IMHO.

Thank you all. I am a long time lurker/commenter. A 'Free speech" advocate. Keep up the Good work. Peace. (o.0)

Please, let's continue.

I haven't been to Reddit in a very long time, and I don't ever intend to go back. Thank's for your work.

I'm a reddit (and twitter and 4chan) traitor. I don't see voat's un-pc as a weakness though. Truth be told if i want original content and archives full of stuff I go to reddit, if i want creative art i go to twitter, if i want to laugh at autistic screeching that something wont fuck him i'll go to 4chan. I come to voat for the un-pc setting that's largely been free of shill influence thanks to the community. If anything I think going with that direction is what distinguishes voat; a larger focus on news and info is what i'd like to see, not the neutral stuff from everywhere else.

Also if you need to take long hiatus go for it. Honestly this place can be depressing as fuck, I myself take breaks from voat. Please don't let it get you down.

I don’t post allot. Very rarely. However, it’s rare that a day goes by in which I don’t visit this site regularly. Here is my view from my perspective:

Voat is a vital, even critical, service to a free people.

I don’t believe it’s realistic to expect a clone site to replace an establishment site. Voat and other such alternate sites are necessary to fill an important niche. I read Fox News, AP, and other news outlets, but for almost every event that actually has any real-world significance, I first learned of it here, on Voat. From Antifa antics to Tommy Robinson’s imprisonment, Voat is the aggregate “front page” where we learn of - and share - these critical events and occurrences. Without voat, or a similar aggregate, an entire majority viewpoint will be swept under the rug and into non-existence, as if it didn’t happen, and views like Antifa will be accepted as the majority. Sure, we can scour all the alt news sites one by one, but this is the place where it all gets compiled and discussed. Voat is a critical service to freedom. Freedom’s front page! I visit certain non-pol subs on Reddit for the content that’s there, and sometimes I even read posts there from those who starkly oppose my views. But it’s voat.co where I am made aware of the real news that is happening and threatening our liberty.

I once believed that people cared enough about the value of free speech to make “clone” sites like Voat (or gab) successful. I’ve come to realize, and have said before, that this single factor isn’t enough. People simply do not value this right enough...

No, Voat is incredibly important.

When young, I was convinced that majority of people prefer to live in shadows and even hate free speech, because of effort to see reality as it is. There were few who were different, they dragged whole lazy ignorant bunch into future like some altruistic nerds. Then I became aware that it is the system that makes people look like that they not care, but in reality they were very interested but so scared, sometimes even to think un-PC stuff.

So as teenagers we took forbidden articles disguised as school-papers to photocopiers and than spread them only to friends, or when I was traveling to other part of my then country where oppression was even worse I took whole package of some red pilling magazine on train and those were gone like hot cakes. People read it in haste even if they hardly understand the language, I was amazed. In 90' that whole communist system imploded also because of such small "free speech places" piercing through before final moment came. Without such scattered red-pilling actions nothing would had happened.

Most westerners perhaps now think that this censorship and injustice will just vanish by itself one day, because is so crazy& unbelievable stupid that it couldn't hang on over just next elections... I'm sorry. My experiences say that it will try to grow even worse and by all means. So every “Free Speech” site counts immensely, every in their own way. But I recognize Voat as really special, it is not just a site with opportunity to post something anywhere else gets censored, but it has a kind of soul from people hanging here. It is hard to describe but I have enough experience to smell it.

ps. About normal content, it is around the corner, just waiting to be invited, I wouldn't worry about that. :) That so called normal content is good cover for moles and shills of all sorts, I saw just other day one from my country here, with big ccp because of such normal wide agreeable content he posted.

I never go on that communist fag site. I despise it.

Reddit is anything but PC, however I do appreciate Voat for it's openness and yourself for your tenacity.

You can see this with Voat. A majority of Voat users still use Reddit. People use Reddit for posting and interacting when it comes to PC topics (4 wheel drive subs, movie subs, book subs, etc.). They use Voat to post the things they can’t post on Reddit. This creates an imbalance where Voat becomes increasingly un-PC, while Reddit gets the neutral content (I know even the most hardened ideologue has a level of civility). The end result is this imbalance drives people away as people wear out when confronted by content like this over the long run.

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This was an automated response. If you think I made a mistake, well... too bad!

Reddit, 😂😂😂 check my Internet history. I refuse to mingle with the SJW of the Internet.

Putt is a tranny

I dont use reddit mainly because reddit users are arogant wankers.

Fortunately, Voat was founded on the premise of free speech. I'll continue to enjoy the lack of censorship here, which, unlike on Reddit, can allow me to breathe the unfiltered worldviews of a small (yet vocal) portion of humanity, even if it is within an echo chamber.

To be fair, however, my biggest gripe with the website itself is that it makes it incredibly difficult for people of opinions that contradict the fundamentals of the echo chamber to be be a part of with the community. Due to my opinions, I rarely get upvoats, sometimes have comments at 0 points, and often get downvoats. This has kept my CCP below 10 for a long time and has subsequently made it so that I cannot make my own submissions (despite the fact that I joined nearly six months ago and am clearly a real member). I suspect this effect has caused people like me to decide not to bother with Voat, and this may have caused it to become an echo chamber.

Ironically, this echo chamber is one in which the vocal portion of its members praise it for not censoring them like Reddit would do, yet demand people like me stop posting.

It is my hope that there will be a solution to this, so that Voat may actually be a free-speech website, instead of one that can easily pretend to be by way of making it easy for the same type of people to communicate, and difficult for others. I'm not an expert in community management, but if I had to come up with my best suggestion, it would be removing the 10 CCP requirement for making submissions. I understand that it is a spam-prevention measure, but its net has caught more than it should have. We should apply the same sentiment of the ideal US legal system — if there is even a shred of doubt that someone needs to be removed from society, then don't remove them. A possible alternative to the 10 CCP requirement might involve looking at how long an account has been active and then using common sense to determine that if they have been here a while without getting banned, then they are probably genuine. But what do I know?

@PuttItOut

I never heard of reddit till I was on voat. One of my sons got me into voat...I'm an old fart and all that.

I go to r/rhfy, but if I write any I'll write them here.

Three words: More hardcore porn.

That'll always draw clicks away from the other sites.

It's not that people are unmotivated, it's that building a site from scratch and finding a way to affordably host it is something that requires heavy web design and coding skill. Skills that not many have.

Not to mention, as you've seen, more traffic means more money needed to host the site. Hard to do if PayPal and merch hosts cut off your funding for leaning Right.

This is all assuming you have a way to promote the site so it gets more users. I guarantee there have been other Voat clones, but they had no way to advertise they were there without getting censored on Reddit or sites like twitter.

When I still used Reddit I would constantly be banned and shadowbanned for simply mentioning Voat existed :/

This place what I thought Reddit couldn't be, but over time it became a shit flinging competition. I started DIYGUNS with the best of intent, and I began to get threats of harassment to ATF intervention. Then I was doxxed.

Admin was gone at that time and unresponsive for hours....so I deleted my account and content. This is the type of shit that makes people leave.

@PuttItOut did you write this while drunk? Seems more like a drunken rambling.
I'm sure you could find someone else to carry the torch, we won't blame you for wanting to.

"The only constant is change" - words of wisdom indeed. I'm here because free speech is 100% more important than safe spaces.

i go to reddit. but not to post because i am seriously banned from almost every sub. they just have more content. first i come to voat and wear out every new thing there is. then i go to reddit because voat is our of new stuff to look at. but i cant even participate in reddit anymore so i dont spend much time there.

Don't let deving this take over your life and ruin it though buddy. Better to stay in the race at this point. Don't trivialize what we have here. On a side note. Have you thought any on succession planning? Making Voat Immortal? that is not a whimsical decision.

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Good for you, and thank you from us.

Eliminate the front page and only show topics that suggests subverses

Reddit? that fucking hell hole

Continue. You are needed. You provide a voice for the voiceless and oppressed.

Dont give up.

I stopped going to Reddit after the San Bernardino shooting, which I first heard about on Voat. I went to Reddit but there wasn't anything on their front page so I went to r/news and still nothing, that's when I realized that Reddit was trying to control the news so I deleted my account and never went back.

I think voaters(including myself) need to invest more in the entertainment side of voat and not just politics

How can we help you achieve these goals? I would be willing to volunteer. Let me know what you need and I will help you.

This site is amazing. Would love to come here for the neutral content as well. Hope it grows stronger over time.

Oh yes, certainly.

Remove the front page until the platform hits critical mass (or whatever general directory structures you have). Opt in only to discussion and groups. Will not limit free speech.

Free speech my ass. Remember when reddit closed drugs makets and people rushed here? There was a brigade to downvote new users because without ccp they can't post, send pm ecc... Voat even banned some subs because these people were upvoating them self in order to be able to use the website. Whoever is running Voat knows this very well, don't believe their cheap rhetoric on free speech. @PuttItOut you are a jew and a lesser human being who deserve to get raped and euthanized

I haven't been back to Reddit since I got banned from the Donald for telling a truth those assholes couldn't handle..then I found this place...keep up the good work! I'm the kind of person who will tell you what you don't want to hear before I'd lie to you..a quality seriously lacking in today's internet.

I only view Reddit via archives, because it guarantees demonetization and no snooping on their part. As for the less favorable types of content on here, I keep any sub that frequently gets this in another set. When I'm in the mood to sift through it, I do. But my front page is pretty much just non political topics and pizzagate. Since doing this, I've noticed a change in my mood. I'm less pissy because I consume less politics and scroll past less racism. I'm not saying those that post racial memes are in the wrong, they're not. Free speech is important. I'm merely saying that it gets old, and fast.

Putt...

I dont know why you feel the need to apoligise for anything. You run the site not us and just like plebbit this place has its own list of people that will run off at the mouth and cry jew over anything that rustles their jimmies without realising that this is one of the few places you can do that and not get your arse banned (with a few exceptions) or getting doxxed or harassed for wrongthink.

Thanks very much for giving us this olace and your and your deputies hard work for jeeping it going.

Now get a couple of extra niggerfaggots and give em som supermod status so next time the place shits the bed we can leave you a message that something broke but we fixed it.

And yet once again you prove yourself to be a far better admin than pretty much any other admin of a site I remember.

Always remember that your efforts are appreciated and that you are fighting for a worthy cause, someday we may figure it out how to fix Voat's unbalanced posting and hopefully you will be rewarded for your efforts.

Want to attract new users?

Change the gaddam default css theme, the light theme is really a huge turn off, it's simple it just hurts, the dark theme is awesome, the light theme is a crime against humanity, seriously, it's barely readable

If you don't know what to put instead just put the dark theme as default, for real, the light theme is too bright/contrasted, the fonts too dark and too small

Even a bumbass shit theme like this one is better regarding readability http://www.webhostingreviewslist.com/design/things-to-consider-before-choosing-a-wordpress-theme-and-20-free-wp-themes/ http://demo.wpzoom.com/?theme=energy&ref=24567

I’m addicted to this site, it is confronting but I can’t stand msm anymore. Putt I think you are under appreciated, these are just minor outages!!

voat is more enjoyable to use. it just seems like a better ux.

also i like the free speech even thus theres some actual bad peeps here. id rather have them in plain daylight than ignore that they exist though. and theyre entitled to their pov, id defend that

I stopped going to reddit years ago. Buncha whinny faggots over there now.

I use Voat as my main news source and it's the first thing I check. I would never go to frontpage of Reddit, but unfortunately when it comes to subreddits for video games like /r/BlackDesertOnline or /r/PathofExile there is simply no way to replace these and there is absolutely no chance the majority of the userbase would move somewhere like Voat. There is even a VERY slim chance they would get banned by reddit and forced to move, as these subreddits are usually very PC. And for general gaming I'd rather go to 8chan as it's just funnier than the reddit, and the memes there are unrestrained. I am subbed to /v/gaming and even that is better than the /r/gaming despite smaller size.

So to sum, I only use reddit for very specific subreddits. Anything else can be better done using Voat and 8chan.

Yes we Shall!!! I am a full-stack Java developer so I don't think I can be much help with voat, but if you need money or just a pat on the back that's no problem!

what is a reddit?

Voat is well made. It's attacked, in various forms, to stop free speech. According to Marilyn Vos Savant some think it's politically and socially safer to have the masses under control. (At 720 below). It's to the detriment of the masses as well. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVlHsJTwFo

Thanku you so much...

if my defense, i have not touched reddit since the day coontown went down.

and it really is enough put, you just cant expect to get past their name recognition over night. their star fades a little everyday, they cant grow anymore. remember that

Voat is in a similar situation to 8chan. The communities that were either banned or totally ruined went there, and those are the most populated. The rest not so much.

Perhaps reddit is perceived as so successful with neutral because mainstream engines heard the sheep there, and reddit`s been around longer so. ..Anyway, simple solution is obvious. Voat community needs to post more neutral material, fill the site up. Also, how to get voat to show up in searches. ..

No Reddit use here Putt. This is no clone, this is Voat, this is home. We don't need much more than a site that keeps chugging along, hick-ups or not. There really aren't places to go outside of here; We all learned the harsh truth of that during that last big down time event. Many tried to take up the slack, start new sites. One day Voat will vanish, as with all sites, but I hope it doesn't. Otherwise, we will be like a broken nation, strewn across the internet, lamenting a great loss. Regardless, I know I have, and will continue to be grateful for what Atko and yourself have provided, what we have, and have had.

You didn't refute a thing except in your deluded mind. You and Crensch are the same person. You bully any newcomer that is for sure but the reason is unclear. I'm sure Putt has had enough of your BS here, you seem to cause him a lot of stress.

This isn't an alt account, it's the only one I have (unlike you).

I would say offer polls similar to how forums do but don't make them binding in the interest of preventing "raids". People could easily subscribe to a sub and vote with the intention of destroying or undermining its purpose.

Long live Voat!

I wish other subs here were a little more active like programming subs but maybe I'm to blame too for not contributing to them either. Tear

First off, I need to say that I know I’ve let a lot of you down (if not all).

You never let me down. You impress me.

Under a different account, I used to post all of the monthly PSPlus free games announcements. I quit after being called a spammer, repeatedly.

Why bother?

Nobody seemed to appreciate it, and as far as everyone else was concerned, I was just spamming.

So it's the "Janie is a Nazi" crowd that seems to be so focused on their own shit, that they can't appreciate when folks actually try and contribute with something other than burning crosses in front yards............

Puttitoout. Without voat and other such sites i would be alot more lonely. Perhaps a moderator subscriber feature. One where you can subscribe to moderators that are independent of a forum or perhaps you have to subscribe to a forums moderators to.

Why not both features. Allows people control of there space but allows other people to uncensor content if they want to.

I'm new here. I'm not into the whole Jew conspiratorial phobia. I'm a white woman married to a brown man. Still I'm here for the free speech and honest opinions and I'm digging it. Ps fuck y'all haters.

Decentralized Social Media https://memo.cash/

Would be nice to see a Voat integration

@PuttItOut love u bb

I don’t post that often, but I haven’t gone back to Reddit since I started this account. Lurked for a bit. But I’m on here every night checking the news. And as it turns out, the Jews did it.

You're the one bringing it up, it's a non-issue to me but you seem to think I'm someone who gives af about your drama.

You ruined Voat.

There's rarely any interest in the non-political side of things when everyone decides to invade anything non-political with "Oh well but you're just a nigger". Voat has a hostility problem. It's the same reason why people go to, or avoid going to, 4chan. You cannot build a real community out of that when all everyone does is hurl the worst words they can think of at one another. Which I suspect is partly because Voat has attracted all the trolls whereas Reddit simply bans those same trolls.

What Voat is ultimately demonstrating to the world is that when people have free speech they proceed to go out of their way to be the nastiest humans imaginable. That definitely is not a "win" for the free speech advocates like myself. I never mention Voat precisely for that reason. It's a cancer that makes the opponents to free speech have a much easier job winning their argument. If you'll take my advice you'll stop with the "nigger this" and "jews that" and actively work on being the most cordial people on the internet. Otherwise all you do is prove their point for them.

Thanks for everything you do for Voat and our online freedom of speech. You are truly doing the world a favor.

Chill, bro. We love it here, just take it easy.

You can see this with Voat. A majority of Voat users still use Reddit. People use Reddit for posting and interacting when it comes to PC topics (4 wheel drive subs, movie subs, book subs, etc.). They use Voat to post the things they can’t post on Reddit. This creates an imbalance where Voat becomes increasingly un-PC, while Reddit gets the neutral content (I know even the most hardened ideologue has a level of civility). The end result is this imbalance drives people away as people wear out when confronted by content like this over the long run.

I don’t know the solution to this, and I am not attempting to pass blame, I am simply stating a truth that has to considered.

What is your goal Putt, to ascend the Alexa Rankings? To one day be able to boast of your website in polite company? This is simply not going to happen for some time no matter what you do, but is that what you would really want?

What you have fostered here is a hub for European survival. You are a European, you know what's happening to our continent. I know you lurk the forums and have come to realize the amount of knowledge that is spread here. You cannot imagine the people who get information from our subverses, but I call tell you, they are not angsty teenagers. While you may feel your position is small and thankless, the role you play is vital to our people.

I wish I could take the load off your back, many of us feel the same way. Let us know how we can help.

On my 3rd account now and i never go to reddit. Sorry that fucking losers like Reddit.

Fuck reddit and any faggots that go there.

I do use Reddit, but I only linger around communities that are small and, as a result, wouldn't have anything over here on Voat, so I do it out of necessity.

Why not let us give each other Voat gold? Wasn't there something about certain sites not wanting to do that with Voat or something?

Must be the galactic fucking water, I swear.

To answer the question, yes. But you already did.

How about make some cryptocurrency donation links so people can donate crypto to voat..
I was thinking it might make you feel better if you use like 1% or 2% for your self.. Then I realized you wouldn't like skimming money off of money donated to voat, so what I thought of was you can have 2 types of donation links, one link that has 100% of the donations go to support voat, and the other donation link where 98% goes to voat and 2% goes to you, because there are people on here (like me and others I'm sure) that wouldn't mind donating money to you too so it isn't quite as painful having to maintain voat with no reward at all..

But at the very least there should be a crypto donation for voat.. Monero is the cryptocurrency I would recommend, but you could accept multiple cryptocurrencies also.. You can't just eternally keep denying being able to donate.. I know you think it is chivalrous to try to maintain all of voat for free, but believe it or not a lot of people on here would actually be happier donating to voat knowing that they are keeping voat strong, instead of fearing every week that some thing might happen to voat because it couldn't manage to withstand every thing..

The internet would be empty without Voat.

Do fundraising Meetups. Create a small delegation including yourself, if possible- if not, a couple of dedicated travelling evangelists. Create a Get out the Voat campaign mapping out travel locations and times across the U.S.. Maybe some of these fucking goats will provide a place to meetup here and there. Traverse the country passing the hat. You do fundraising the old-fashioned way and build a fucking super sticky community. I'm willing to put in a coupla hundred if your peeps show up in Ohio.

People in 2018 need to put up or shut the fuck up. Too much yakking about how much they hate the SJW fungus and not enough let's dig in our heels and ACTUALLY support great people making a difference on an internet that is being coded from a million corners to resist the pioneering spirit of freedom. We can take this shit back and supporting Voat developers is one route.

Remember the name of Apple's old evangelist? Not that Voat is a product of that level of product but money IS made through evangelism and if the merchant globalist systems won't provide that service getting on the road to connect with users and their wallets will.

I'd love to hand a check to a couple of Voat evangelists at a Polaris Parkway bar or a Columbus Ohio home over some brews. Bring it on. I don't think I'm the only one. FUCK merchant services- they can eat my asshole out. I have cash and check they can't goddamn touch.

Strange how technology is creating its own backdoor into the old school. Happens every time Socialists and Communists get their grubby paws on shit.

Thanks Putt. And there are some on Voat who are magnifying exponentially the un-PC aspects of Voat to the point of toxicity. Crensch is a prime example, and so is Tallest_Skil . I don't like shutting people up, but these Voat could really benefit from losing these individuals' baggage...they are so toxic, abrasive, combative, hostile, and extreme, and forcefully interject themselves into every post and are staring online 24/7 it seems like, with little life or sleep outside of Voat...

If I ask for one thing, it's for an image hosting service or teaming up with one of the available online services. Nothing is worse than posting content and receiving "WTF IMGUR?!?!?".

No, "Still salty that clear rules were put in place to prevent you from forum sliding and (((shutting it down)))"

This is what you do. Obviously. I had no idea anything like that happened or it was an issue.

thanks. I tried to make /v/bicycling work, not enough neutral users.

Gab turned to trash also. My loyalty lies here.

I love voat. Reddit sucks.

I'd just like to add that driving traffic to smaller subs is impossible on voat because there is no "related discussions" for x-posts.

Yes we shall continue!

Voat will take over reddit COMPLETELY one day after one or two reddit mistakes to happen.

This is based on history.

Our Admin means the /MGTOW popular reddit forum that countless voat people here quietly still go to AND less controversial hobby sites on reddit, but he is correct.

Its why Ebay with its THOUSANDS of listings restrictions and us LEA control overlords has no real competition... people go where the enslaved eyeballs go.

For voat to be as big as reddit it can happen overnight via simple overreach.

Remember Digg.com , they lost over half their base by deleting complaint posts concerning censorship at digg.com over a few deleted strings of numbers representing a HD-dvd key. At the time of the digg.com censorship google showed 283,000 pages with the material they tried to censor, and then censor the censorship complaints : https://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/05/02/0235228/diggcom-attempts-to-suppress-hd-dvd-revolt

Digg lost over half its users then eventually ALL its users.

Rmemeber ugly white on black text MySpace.com ? It was evaluaded at tens of billions of dollars and in one year vaporized to no users when everyone fled for a site with enforced black on white layout called "Facebook.com"

All 100 of the top 100 largest web sites on the internet are pure black text on near white backgrounds. Use any listing. All 100.

Anyways others disappeared from policy changes. mp3.com, many more.

voat can take over reddit.com

And if it has the servers and code, it will. And Then it too will decay one year by introducing ad-friendly zones, that ban the word "nigger" or "fag" or "kike"... or some slipperly slope.

It also can be attacked from within by those that dont want alt right free speech of any form

It serves as a priceless tool of us gov LEA as a honeypot of sorts so they will partner to keep it alive typically

But RAPIDLY massive exodus of people could free other sites and congregate here based on historical FACT

MYSPACE.COM was 12 billion value to zero based on a few admin mistakes : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jun/30/myspace-sold-35-million-news

If voat can handle 100 times more users in a surge, just as reddit scaled and could, then it can take over reddit

hell it can take over gab.io

it can also us https to create web based semi-secure chat login pages for mobile users that cannot be "store blocked" nad become the next big thing for secure chat

It can also foster political scandal exposes that get the voat discussion pages to be mentioned in mainstream press : "As being discussedon on free speech political site voat.co this week..."

The biggest problem is it needs tu run fine without any use of Cloudflare at all.

Cloudflare deleted two massive free speech sites so far and this is going to be the third large one pulled.

first DailyStormer, then an altright site, then a sex worker site with over 50,000 whores (Switter).

voat probably needs to just be free enough under the rules of a single nation, and therefore staying out of porn and whoring might be a necessity for free political speech

Here's a good one. New posts in v/technology keep getting downvoted. It’s always -2. Clearly the problem is that people don’t care about free speech.

Never used reddit before. Voat is my first stop for info.

I love Voat & all the work done to stay up and running. However your comments regarding the extremism are concerning, considering you sound overwhelmed with the amount of current users, yet complain about scaring new users away with 'extremism' which would only make your job harder right?? ... People would not even be here without the 'extremism'. There are plenty bodies here happy to get more involved and even bail you out if this is not your calling. Not that i blame you, but it sounds to me like you are being pressured to allow this site to fail, bit off more than you could chew, don't know how/refuse to enlist support. But it's starting to sound like you just don't like the viewpoints dominating Voat. Where is your evidence that any of us are Redditting?? Come on Putt, don't bullshit a bullshitter.

/v/niggers is a community service

Great post, you really hit the nail on the head. A clone will never win, it has to improve drastically over the old site.

Reddit has a LOT of weaknesses to be improved on, and you already mentioned a few great ones. I hate how reddit's voting system works, if someone can figure out a better way to allow community moderation, curation, and voting then you'd see better traction against the old guard for sure.

I agree that if voat's only difference is freedom of speech but the rest is a clone of reddit's features, it'll continue to stagnate with offensive speech only and eventually be abandoned.

thank you for eloquently proving my point kev. I knew I could count on you.

People use Reddit

Who gives a shit about the masses using a commercialized website featured on pop internet charts? You're in the wrong game if the goal is to make money or be popular. Think back to when FB required a college email.

Hey man, if it helps I found this site a few weeks ago, and I just now made an account. If niche works, pander to the niche.

Been here 2.8 years and have not been back the that damn site.

You can see this with Voat. A majority of Voat users still use Reddit. People use Reddit for posting and interacting when it comes to PC topics (4 wheel drive subs, movie subs, book subs, etc.).

I think this boils down to the site's population more than anything. There isn't really much room to discuss more specific topics on here, barring those specifically banned by Reddit (see: FPH, Pizzagate, etc.). So things like specific video games end up being baked into a broader board, in this case, v/gaming. Unfortunately, this is far from easy to solve, and not worth solving at all, if it means compromising the devotion to free speech that this site values so much.

I plan on sticking around till the bitter end. Free speech, at day's end, is worth protecting, and this site is a little bastion of that in an Internet that's become increasing hostile towards it.

Voat is my go to for news and lulz.

So we need neutral content? Ok.

My concern is voat farms springing up and choking us out. Strong content helps reduce that risk. How too grow without losing the soul of voat, that's the question.

I don’t know how I found this place - I don’t do reddit - but I believe this site will grow and evolve over time.

I post some edgy stuff sometimes, but I ignore most haters, or people who are so invested in this place that they routinely go after each other on a personal level.

Yeah, you’re going to have a reputation for a while, as the media “discovers” you and lumps you in with the crazies, but most people don’t pay attention to what the media says, anymore.

IMO.

Obviously you don't know who I am lol

You do realize that you just revealed what you do, right?

"I know I’ve let a lot of you down (if not all)"

Not at all! You have brought me up. Thank you very much for your site. TImes when it is not working make me realize how unique it is. And how much I need to vent in a world gone crazy.

Please don't be discouraged. Voat is still growing. You're doing the right thing. No one actually expects you to be perfect.

Get some help. Voat is getting big and needy. You're not a superhero. Don't think that you can do everything by yourself. It's okay to ask for help.

Hire a lawyer to fight to get the income stream back. Can't afford one? Call in a favor from some buddy you went to school with. There must be some kind of action you can take to get the money flowing again. Open an LLC or something!

Keep your head up. You can do this!

I always thought derram was a pervert's bot.

I don't blame you for putting Voat on the backburner. It seems to be a passion project, and maintaining such things can be difficult if you start down a new road. However, I will say I clicked more on the front page of Voat than I ever did at Reddit. For most, Reddit is only a "must" due to the size. If you want to participate in a hobby community, you're going to end up on Reddit... for only those things.

Realistically, as a community, it's far too hard to break away from Reddit when it's so heavily populated by the "normie" memetard Millennials. This target audience intersects with hobbyist activities, like DIY, video games, comics, etc. It's the hub of the internet, which this site will not be for the foreseeable future, since fluff and feel-goodery are much less polarizing than realism and far-end political discussion. Reddit jumped the shark when it started to remove free speech outside the realm of minimum legal standards.

Oh we know each other.

I thank you for this site regardless of what happens from here out. Not only do you have the stress of life, running a site like Voat, AND having to deal with the overwhelming onslaught of attacks on free speech - you still take the time out to write this. Thank you is all I can say.

Reddit has been dead to me for a couple of years, got sub banned for stating the simple truth and the rest of the site is now shit to me. This site doesn't fuck around and you can be frank, good shit.

Any down voats are seriously fucking up my retirement plan. Was counting on cashing out all my points and living off the fat of the land.

Love you putt!!

Dammit Putt, this affirmative consent shit is ruining the mood

It's a shame that most people don't care enough about their rights to actively defend them.

We need to get Putt a submissive girlfriend.

JEWS DID 9/11

GLAD YOU STILL ALIVE

NIGGER

E-THUGGIN IS MORE THAN JUST A HOBBY IS A LIFESTYLE

feed the good wolf.

As an almost daily user of Voat.co for almost two years, I've recently been worried that Voat is losing it's brightest and cleverest poster/members to other sites. Lately there's been too many arguments and what appears to be childish (literally kids posting) posts lately. Yeah I've used R_ddit a few times but mostly for crack related stuff; politically I avoid the site. there's days when I sign into Voat because someone posts something that makes me laugh out loud and makes me glad I found this site and have been a member...niggerkikefaggot was one of my first welcoming messages! We are living in a world of true double-think: we are censored by the gubmint and msm and we don't like it. Yet we self-censor because we tacitly accept being censored. Voat is a last bastion of freedom. Thank you for telling us what is going on and thank you for sticking with it.

I love Voat. It’s one of the few sites I bother to visit at all. Voat keeps me informed.

I use Reddit still. The same way you urinate on someone who is on fire.

I wholeheartedly agree with this unbalance you mention. An idea I had last year to "fight" this and make Voat more enjoyable (at least for myself) was to write a bot to cross-post the most popular reddit threads from these neutral subs here, for instance from /r/rabbits which is just cute bunnies. Just enough to create active non-political subverses, not too much as to spam Voat or make it too reliant on reddit's content. However I had troubles with Voat's API keys (which I wrote one or two threads about, sadly on a rant-like fashion) and never got to writing the voat-side of the bot (I made the reddit side using praw). I think it's still something to consider, and I might eventually do it if no one else does.

Regarding the announced change it sounds like it could be a great thing, at least in principle. In practice I'm not so optimistic, partially because Voat is already federated enough such that each interest group can have its own independent community, partially because it doesn't really attack the "unbalance" issue. Actually I think it could be better explored if used as a tool to further Voat's role as a website for political discussion, as these communities could be self-managed and more engaging in the community aspect of subverses (rather than the content side), depending on what the feature set will actually be.

I use Boat because I can be sufficiently divorced from my actual interests to avoid doxxing to some degree. I came here because of something that happened at Reddit I didn't like (I dont remember what). I like that people can say faggot. I wish people were less insane. Less angry. More human. More interested in understanding. I can't imagine in this environment, where there are such prolific shit posters that even a casual like me remembers their names, ever being able to have a successful "interest" sub, since even the few flat earthed crazies out there manage to take the joy out of discourse in the space subs.

Few people here seem like people I'd hang out with... Though many seem like the kind of person I'd like to run into for a jovial haranguing while shitfaced.

I never went back to Reddit and I dont plan to, but I miss some of the subs that were about enthusiastic pursuits. As you've said, so many people are here because of their anger... It is hard to have an uplifting experience just being united in anger.

Thanks for Putting yourself out there to host this joint, I wish I knew howbyou avoided SJW doxxing in the process.

i purposely got myself perma-global-banned on reddit soon after i found voat. i only ever go there to what new porn games are out.

I post on /v/anime on the regular to help it grow. I know there are like 5 of us there, but I'm not ready to give up yet.

I wear my voat hoodie proudly (during the winter).

I have never felt you have let us down. In fact I was more concern that something happened to you, and later found out you were with mama Putt.

You have done an amazing job.

We are not a clone, we are Voat's Goats.

Thank you for sharing and your work. Please bring back crypto donations so we may support.

What we need is an immutable chat site on the blockchain. Or at least go back to IRC or something, where anyone with a Raspberry PI can host.

Thanks, Putt. I believe in you.

muh insulinhhh...lol...i love voat

Cheers, buddy.

This is a very nice apology and explanation, but does nothing to address the core problem of Voat. The admin team is 1 man deep and that 1 man is burned out / too busy. Add more admins or why bother? No amount of community empowerment will fix a full disk next time.

For me, I do not go to Reddit any more except when search result gives me specific answer I'm looking for. I don't even come here that much since the last major outage.

I go to poal.co where there are two active admins who also care about free speech.

Appreciate both you and Atko, Putt. Voat is my favorite site and I visit it way too much. XD

I appreciate your efforts, and occasional, fugitive downtime is scarcely discommodious.

In my view, Voat's problem is that so many of its regulars are still using Reddit when they should instead frequent and contribute to equivalent subverses here.

Is the crossover between Voat and Reddit legitimately that bad? I had no idea.

I deleted my Reddit account not long after moving here because I believe in free speech -- something that simply doesn't exist on Reddit anymore.

Wish more would stick to their ideals enough to say the same.

Maybe if the community didn't almost entirely, collectively, beat the shit out of anyone that comes from somewhere else, there'd be more people here.
even the top comment is bashing reddit.
There's no "integration," there's just, "How dare you come here from somewhere else even though I did too!" and it's from a like, three month old account.
"Free speech," for a lot of people seems to mean, "Be a total fucking asshole for no reason."
"Maybe if you weren't such a pussy and grew a pair of balls you wouldn't get your fee-fees hurt, bitch." - doesn't seem like a place someone that would contribute to v/aww would care to stay in.
I couldn't care less about a faceless user saying shit to me, but a lot of people don't want to hang around in a place where the only interaction with other members is almost entirely abuse.

If you're trying to create a site that is nothing more than a clone of reddit..then I have no interest in that. I doubt many would.

I come here because it's increasingly becoming the becon of free speech that the internet was created on.

Without that, this place is an unwanted child of reddit and nothing more. Get pissed all you want , but reddit already exists. You're not going to get their volume by creating a "clone site". If you really believe in the value of free speech you'll leave it the way it is. If you can't afford it, then you should shut it down.

Thank You for all of your time, and effort @PuttItOut.

True Free Speech is worth fighting for, and certainly worth living with occasional site maintenance hiccups.

@PuttItOut

I can understand why you'd be disappointed in the userbase and content here. The drama and power struggles have been crazy as with the mod takeover with @kevdude and @crensch over in pizzagate which was the primary reason I came here (and peacemaker's poems!).

You seem like a good person and I appreciate your ideals. Remember, ultimately it's YOUR site, you don't have to provide reasons for your absence, why things are done the way they are. That's up to you. If you feel like some people are making it worse for others, making newcomers not want to join, making others want to leave, speak up. We have to have some rules and guidelines for a community to function properly...if we didn't lock up rapists, thieves and murders, it would be utter chaos. I think you've been too welcoming and giving to people here at the expense of newcomers but of course that's your call.

I might be "UN-PC" but I never go to reddit bro!

(There is plenty of neutral content here see: TIL, Funny, science etc.)

If this is a money thing, tell me where to send some.

OP is absolutely right. I go on Reddit at work because it's PC, but not Voat because it's not. Over the last two months, I've started visiting Voat every day (before, less than once a week) but OP is right, I should make Voat my primary outlet. Voat respects me, so I should respect Voat back. From now on, I will post my OC (limited as it may be) to Voat.

In regards to the 'Let’s get real' section. I've found that there are people on here that genuinely dont want voat to grow. Very often you'll see "fuck off back to reddit" or something similar, even users rallying others to harass someone to the point they leave the site. Unfortunately it is these outliers that talk the loudest, and make voat unwelcoming and unneededly hostile.

Voat will make it. It just takes time and money that some cannot afford. Do it for America and freedom of speech and I will always be with you. There are many sites that will fall when Trump finishes what he is doing. You will be the perfect position to take over. It is all about timing.

What makes a clone not a clone?

@alopix thinks doom and call of duty are clones of each other, so make sure to tell him he's excluded from this question @puttitout

also

i'm PuttItOut and im a mod. RIP my inbox

AMIRITE??

Thanks @PuttItOut

I have posted a few times about this topic - several times under my only other account (which I nuked after our last blackout), but once recently after that. Each time those post was shat upon immediately by a few members of the community - and apparently ignored by the rest. I also made a few reasonable recommendations for monetizating and expanding the site, and they were ignored. I get that people all have their ways of filtering through content, but I realized then, what you are saying now - people come here for a specific type of drama- not ideas.

The "nigger fag" thing is great and all, but that gets tired real fast. Especially if you are over 30. The place feels like a bunch of trolls sometimes - even established members act like idiots at times. I can handle circle jerks and rough language, but the quality of responses just flat out sucks a lot of the time.

I have no idea what to do about this aspect of Voat. Even minor attempts can kill the freedom here - but letting things go on as they have may ultimately doom the site.

A lot of people have offered to help, but there seems to be no attempt to follow up on these ideas. I know it is hard to spot talent, but you have some on your side here. That is on you and @Atko to sort out. I wish you well.

Good luck.

Thanks so much @PuttItOut, having a place like voat means a lot, you're clearly doing your best and damnit it's certainly good enough for me.

You guys need a reddit gold equivalent.

Call it the Voat GOAT, people who pay $5-10 a month get a special name or something.

Putt, I've given up on Reddit long ago, and I agree more content needs to be created here. There are subs that have gone abandoned and there are subs that are active. Outside of /Linux, I've mainly seen "un-PC" content on the other active subs. I consider Voat to be the one source I can count on that won't have censorship. I believe in anyone being able to say anything except physical threats. If you want to be an asshole, damn it you have a fucking right to be an asshole, but even assholes like to read things that won't piss them off about the world on a daily basis. I've often left Voat glad I read but also with higher blood pressure. So in my small way i've been looking for original content to post and honestly I suck at that, but I try. If there is anything else I can help out with let me know.

Keeps me sane in an insane world.

Everyone please remember to Donate.

Make a MasterNode CryptoCurrency. Make that the way the community can continue to fund this site. <3 https://youtu.be/S0gi3kMC8MI

Putt has taken the blackpill.

As a Shreddit, refugee, they closed down a well known thread, and found your site. From all accounts this site s 10 times better than other supposed free speech sites. Daily we are having our rights removed and most are too apathetic, stupid or anti free speech "someones feelings might get hurt" to stand up and say Enough is Enough. It is important to have many voices discussing things in the for and against, so a balanced conclusion can be reached.

I think a good point is raised about the lack of neutral content. I think for things like specific games, cars, tech etc. We should just shamelessly lift Reddit content

Why not ask for help @PuttItOut?

Same as last time.

Doesn't make sense to me.

It's all about marketing.

You don’t have to go it alone. I’m sure there are technically competent people here who would volunteer to help out.

Thanks @Puttitout for what you do. Hope your schooling is going well!

Carry on. I don't go to reddit and don't visit the links posted here that go to reddit.

Literally the beginning of the end. You are clearly upset that Voat became the far right version of Reddit, which isn't going to win a lot of fans or advertisers, comparatively. You are upset this site doesn't pay for itself nor your time (understandable but addressed by myself and others a few times now). And people care about what's COOL. Your site is too late for the 4chan like secret club, cool. It's too aggressive for the normies to think it's cool. It's too much a clone of reddit for those on the fence to be cool.

Solutions: DRAMATICALLY change the way voat looks, acts, rules, etc. lean IN to what makes voat awesome and stop with the reddit cloan shit. OR Make it functional for the base you have now and just let it sit stagnant for years unless a massive culture shift happens. Good Luck putt.

Here's a sub that belongs to one of the "moderators" of v/pizzagate. You know, the site that's all about protecting children. Why don't more more of you people want to join Voat? It's because you don't love "free speech", isn't it?

i love it here

Thank you Putt. It’s so true what you said ‘life is full of surprises’, we mustn’t take it for granted that’s for sure. In the same way we can’t take Voat for granted.

Thanks again

I think a big problem with growing communities on voat is a ton of the neutral subs don't have active mods anymore. I post to /v/edm and /v/nightcore but there is no mods to help grow the community or cull off-topic posts.

@puttitout

Are you gonna implement the bonded acct/randomly chosen incentivized community moderation thing?

As far as funding goes, start a kickstarter for a new invention. Word it like the wiener pill ads that don't really tell you if you're gonna get bigger or last longer, but just tell you that they "extend your experience". Get some money.

Also, look into zcash and monero as donation options.

This is a liquidity option for bitcoin too: https://localbitcoins.com/

UNACCEPTABLE!..._{but completely understandable so we forgive you} 😎

Fuck Reddit Thanks Putt.

Thanks Put. I haven't posted on Reddit since the fattening, though I do refer to it every once and a while. Hopefully Voat can find a way to ease the burden on critical people such as yourself.

I never touch Reddit.

Thank you putt for your struggle, and your honesty, and your tolerance of the assholes around here. I used to be one of those that still used Reddit but I don't anymore it's become not neutral but vile in a different way than this place is.

I’ve come to realize, and have said before, that this single factor isn’t enough.

No single raindrop thinks itself the cause of a flood.

I too wish that there were more hobbyist subs, and more activity in the ones we have here. I've given a go at a couple that interest me, but like you said, people come to Voat for other reasons. Going to the Star Trek Online sub on reddit is useful in that there's going to be good information, but it's miserable in that well...there's reddit users there. Smug as fuck.

I'll do my part to keep some level of activity up in the subs I'm interested in. I've honestly gotten discouraged from posting in them due to little to no other activity. I made the four most recent posts in /v/sto and those are even old as hell.

Might be time to knock some sub ownership changes out so that there can be renewed activity. Seeing that the owner of a sub hasn't been active on the site in over a year is kind of a downer.

I would like to delete my account. It says "user not found" when I try.

If we give you some money, would that help?

As always, I am late to the party.

@PuttItOut Man, you get a lot of shit. At the end of the day, you are still kickin' ass, as far as I am concerned.

I once had an old Marine sniper friend who told me, "Never apologize, unless it is a big fuck up. Always assume you are a target whether you are or not. Keep your head down and power through."

All I can say is good job man. Good fuckin' job. People love to complain, but I love Voat and I love all of you bastards. I would share a beer with any of you anyday.

And sorry for the ping. I try to limit my pings to you. I like to give you a thumbs up every now and then.

You make some excellent points. I really appreciate what you have tried to do in creating Voat, but it has become the site where it seems almost overwhelmed with various and sundry honest-to-goodness racists, anti-semites, etc.

When it is once in a while, whatever, but when every other post involves the use of some racial epitaph or other, or hating on (((them))) it becomes very off-putting.

I stay here despite all the antisemitic content, because i said "fuck you" to reddit, and never went back, because i meant it. I am, however, a minority.

Thank you Putt, seriously thanks for all you do. I appreciate you and you have never disappointed me (just got me worried when it went down for days last time) :)

I don't want their PC bullshit. I live for the un-PC shit and without Voat, I have no other source for the real real. I've been here for 3 years and haven't looked back for a glance and I'm personally happy as hell with what this place is.

I stopped using reddit over a year ago. What do we need to boost this site?

Hey Putt, thank you for you dedication to the site. I know that I previously said I wouldn't be using this site anymore due to the suspicious downtime and lack of activity from you but I am back. I didn't go to R3ddit, I didn't go to another site. I just lurked in the shadows. Voat has been a big part of my life since I joined and it will continue until the end. I have been dealing with a lot of real-life struggles myself and have been less active. These kind of post are what keeps me coming back to Voat. I would offer any help I could, I just don't know what kind of help is needed. Thank you!

I only use voat. Voat voting will destroy what little we have. I see you're hellbent on doing so, which sucks. This does not address bots, VPNs, and other methods people can use to obscure concensus and manipulate the results of your system. This will be subverted.

Just tell Atko you want to quit like a man.

Thank you!!! If we had active Soccer/Tennis subvoats here I would never go to reddit

No plebbit ever, me. Is there a donation path for mortals? Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy disk space.

Thanks for the clarity, Putt. You've definitely seemed very distant lately and I certainly appreciate your candor.

I've done all I can here to keep running a non-political sub that provides a nice alternative to other platforms. If it weren't for this website I wouldn't have met a couple very awesome and seasoned growers that I now have personal contact with.

Side note, with your new thingie you want to finish - will people be able to de-mod me from v/JustGrowIt for being a fence sitting beta cuck? Just curious.

I would like to preface this with the fact that @puttitout I still appreciate everything you have done for voat.

Considering the only alternatives to voat that are about freedom of speech is poal and notabug. I'm going to have to assume that clone stuff was pointed at https://poal.co and https://notabug.io

If thats the case being the person who founded poal let me respond. Freedom of Speech IS enough for a platform to stand on. Voat didn't have the issues it has because freedom of speech isn't enough, voat has the issues it has because you did not manage it. You cannot have a user base with no direction from the admin. You cannot manage a large community like this all alone. You cannot check out for a week and put no one in charge of making sure the site stays up. Voat is failing because you are not a system admin apparently, being a system administrator means dealing with users. At its core thats the job because no users with problems or needs then no job. You didn't deal with your users. You ignored their needs, wants, and opinions. Many have offered to help yet no one is allowed. In short, what did you think would happen? When this place disappeared for a week I decided I would make a place to go when it goes down for good. What exactly would you have me do? Trust you that voat isn't going to disappear one day? That already happened. You have lost the trust of many of your users. I'm sorry this freedom of speech fight is bigger than you or me or anyone person. You have shown you heart isn't in fighting it, mine is. I wish you all the best but I will say I'm disappointed I loved voat. I've been here since it was whoaverse(not on this account) I've watched everything thats happened and I always wished you would step in a little more often deal with the brigading, as thats what drove new users away. I'm sad to say this but you didn't really leave me much choice but to make something else because I believe one day voat will be gone.

In the event that you actually read this and make it this far down. If you do turn things around and voat gets better I'll still drop by from time to time. I'll support anywhere that is pro free speech. In the mean time if/when you do shut voat down. You are more than welcome to join us on poal.

Good Luck @PMYB2

I think you over-estimate Voat users doing their important work at Reddit-this is a VERY SPECIAL place on the internet, about as "free" as you could allow and be functional-we get the "goods" here, if you know how to ferret out the weasels; perhaps its time for you to delegate some responsibilities, its perfectly normal to experience burnout on a project like this. I believe PIZZAGATE will crack WIDE open soon, and VOAT has a lot to do with that-don't quit when you're almost at the finish line:)

This is some sad jerk yourself off lamenting your own faggotry shit. I read half of it.

I like voat, I'll contribute more once I finish my degree and get a better job. I've been practicing my art skills and learning interesting stuff like Japanese and HAM radio that I'll teach others here. Look forward to more dinosaurs

I left Reddit when all of the "real" news did. There was a point when the front page was all of the days news stories as they were breaking. It was posted on Reddit a day or two before it hit the mainstream. It was almost like the TV news got their stories directly from the front page. Then it turned into memes, cat posts, and anti Trump shitposting all day every day. You coldnt find a single breaking news story until about page seven. I come to Voat because it is like the old Reddit I remember. I can read about what is going on a step ahead of everyone else. Yes, Voat is overtly racist, but it keeps the mainstream out, and if you dont want to see that kind of content just block those subs, I have. I can still get my news, and I dont have to hear about what the niggers did today, or read all of the inane bullshit the fucktards at Soapboxbanhammer create. If Voat goes down for good we will all be forcefead the bullshit that for profit forums want posted, without any form of user filter. You have created something unique, and it deserves to be protected.

Anyone who still goes to reddit needs to examine their life.

You are right. I am guilty. I will change.

Voat needs something to set it apart from Reddit in a functionality sense. An innovation is required, but that's not easy. I myself don't know what that would be, otherwise it'd be making my own website. All I'm saying is, that's what's needed for Voat to grow. New ideas will have to be tried, and don't be afraid to try them. Most of them will be bad and will fail, but all you need is one to make this place succeed.

Well said. I will start to post more neutral content here. I thunk it's also important to be able to have neutral conversations about neutral topics without being called a nigger, as it really doesn't add to the conversation unless we're in /v/watermelon Or something. I guess I'm just saying we should try to stay on point and remember what subverse we're commenting in, not to silence speech, but to foster it.

I just can't go back to reddit. I tried but I just couldn't take it.

I've been coming here three years. I used to produce original content and discussions but for the last year and a half it has become abundantly clear you have no desire to grow this site. You had dozens of people at one point who would have worked on the site just because they loved it. You refused to relinquish control while falling further and further back. You let yourself down by abandoning your passion through apathy. Now you have let the users down. It is clear this site has no future. Since the DAYS long shutdown you shed heaps of users. It's your website Puttitout and you are free to neglect it. Have my say? I think you let a good thing die a slow death and it is a shame. Hope things turn out well for you Puttitout.

I use voat for real news but i still use reddit for bullshit subreddits. Also, reddit has an issue of hive-minded opinions going unchallenged because they would rather not see things for how they really are which I feel the need to bring to light to. This is my go to site if I want to learn, this site is greatly appreciated. I've learned a lot from it.

Yes. Continue. Forever.

Is Voat trending towards being a true Reddit clone or a Reddit replacement? I don't think so, and I don't think that matters.

Do people care about free speech enough to come here and participate? I think only some people fall into this category while many internet users are just chasing "Ow My Balls"-esque dopamine in places like r/aww. This places Voat into a niche, and maybe that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

But, ultimately, I think there are only two questions that matter:

1) Is traffic increasing? Because from this standpoint Voat appears to have stagnated.

And I'm not saying this is a bad thing. At least the site IS stable. But at some point, it needs to grow.

2) Will Voat ever be able to handle a traffic surge?

I can remember multiple distinct times where us Reddit users decided to leave Reddit enmasse and come to Voat. We were being censored, were angry and effectively attempting to abandon the platform. Every time we went to Voat is was either down or would be down soon, so, I, and the other users just gave up, forgot about Voat and went back to normalcy.

I actually only came to Voat because every so often I would check back to the site to see if it was stable enough to use.

Within the last few months, Reddit has loosened their censorship. I'm now able to go into specific subreddits and say things that would have gotten me banned, muted, warned, 6 months ago. Something weird is going on over there, what, I don't know.

Yes!!

And I will pull my finger out for posting.

Why cant Putt just hire more people and appoint a successor so he can finally retire?

Voat is cool. Reddit drools. (don't make fun of me for saying this, faggots)

It's just strange that right during the voting in Cali for Little, his biggest fanbase was unable to communicate here. Not saying conspiracy, but damn it is suspicious. Maybe voat was attacked?

I never go to reddit I hate that place.

thanks for your efforts, nobody else lets me talk for long

Yes, let's keep this train rolling. Eventually the trolls and shills pushing hate will be drowned out. I'm sure there are a lot of people who use reddit and just don't understand the censorship going on. If we want to capture the regular users who appreciate freedom of speech, rather than push voat, we just need groups spamming reddit with all of their examples of blatant authoritarian censorship.

So long as voat keeps freedom of speech, (though cursing in titles should be managed imo) I'll continue to use voat and ignore reddit. I can ignore the trolls and haters without much issue.

I don't have an account with reddit, and the only time I go is when a search for something about Games of thrones theory or episode review leads me there. I wish Voat had an active GOT forum, but it doesn't.

Thanks for the work you do keeping this site up and running.

I joined Voat mid 2015. I was a reddit user for nearly eight years. I rage quit reddit last September, and the only thing I ever even look at over there anymore is T_D. I used to be there mainly for /r/reloading, but what I saw happening in T_D opened my eyes. This is my home site now, and I don't view it as a substitute. I occasionally post items to /v/reloading, but it just hasn't taken off. It doesn't matter. I have changed since then, and I come to Voat because of free speech, and I enjoy what I find here. In fact, I read many more diverse subs here than I ever did on reddit, because I rarely ventured out of my favored sub over there. Free speech is far more important than any hobby I might have. Thank you for all your hard work, it is appreciated by far more people than you can ever know.

< Never once used reddit

I unsubbed from all of the "fluff" crap on reddit. It's full of astroturf and pointless bullshit. The reason I still use reddit is for the communities like around specific games. There isn't much point to splitting communities like that, so the crowd really ends up congregating around 1-3 platforms. It's sad, but that's how the winner-take-all style of social networking works.

I've always been very happy with voat

TL;DR, The people who frequent this site are off-putting fucktards who are driving people away and causing voat to go broke. Thank's a lot.

You have exceeded my expectations so stop berating yourself.

Sorry I go back to reddit for a lot of my conversation.. I believe you understand why since you posted the reasons..It's mostly because of the amount of content and contributors there. I come here to hopefully find non-biased discussion. I'm much less extreme than many of your other users..They do push me away sometimes..Your new technology idea would be interesting..hopefully it'll draw more people..

I think the problems need to be identified to help find solutions.. Like why is free speech online so hard to come by? What makes things turn into echo chambers? What makes popular forums devolve into SJW shitholes? other such questions..Perhaps the questions need to be broken down further until an answer can arrive..

Big love Putt, I dont go back either. This is home.

No reddit here.

oh and I have never had a reddit account ever and don't plan on having one.

Keep up the work you are doing ignore any haters. Free Speech is too important to give up fighting the good fight. Heil Voat!!!!!

Thanks for sticking it out. I could never go back to reddit. I'm glad you recognize that the neutral content is lacking here based on what you outlined.

PC is just a synonym for civility. Free speech is nothing if it is just used to attack and hate people. You are correct that most people use both Reddit and Voat and it has caused the haters to distill out and end up on this side of the apparatus.

I was one of the first dozen people on Reddit. When I came over to Voat to check it out it reminded me of Reddit in its infancy. I decided to stay so I could watch it evolve and grow. What I found was that the haters grew steadily and leveraged their numbers exclude and control in an abbarent new form of PC. The first pure experience of this was when I made a simple post that an evil person was not that way because they were fat. That day I experienced a lynch mob that gave me nearly 300 down votes on a simple statement of fact. Voat does not tolerate people outside of their faith.

I perpose that handing Voat over to this group that presently dominates things here will lock it into its present stat of disfunction and lead to its demise.

As long as you are still here and still developing then that is o.k :)

Do you want some help? If we monetized in some way and got some staff in then this could be a dream job for some people. I can help, most of us can help and most will help for free in all actuality.

We love you Puttler, don't go dark on us. If it is bad tell us (member Voat needs an angel?), if you need help, tell us.

I can't 'member you ever letting us down, why would we let you down?

Im one of the guilty but more and more of my time is spent here. I'll focus on more neutral stuff going forward and post it here too, as should we all.

but never, ever forget this is a place a free speech first and foremost

Tits 4 u

Reddit has nothing that interests me, and the news on that site is abysmal. Once I came here, I didn't go back (except for to shitpost and purposely get banned from subs).

I found voat at the right time .. when the spirit cooking story broke. I hope it can stay on line as I quit reddit when they banned the spirit cooking topic.

Good luck and best to you whatever you decide!

Putt: Effort of Hercules. Good work . I NEVER post to honeypot Reddit. Stopped posting to Slash-Dot. Kissed-off the NewYorker. I'll be a VOAT-guy till it sinks.

Do what you do. I like it here. I don't have a reddit account, nor do I use it as a reference site. I came to Voat because of positive reviews from various "chans". If that isn't crazy, I don't know what is. /b/ros, /loli/gaggers, /x/philes and /pol/tards never agree on anything. Voat has just about as a good a reputation as a site can get. I can easily understand down time related to tech issues. No worries.

Long Live Voat.

Thanks Putt. I know it seems like we're off putting but I've seen this site grow from merely a place of free speech to one where content was stolen from sites like reddit to one where OC is being posted all the time. This site was in fact way ahead of the news and other sites about the volcanic activity in Hawaii for example thanks to a local (my memory is bad but I think it was @le_squish), the home gardening sub is really taking off and inspiring people to grow something other than weed, etc. It'll take time to get to having reddit level content but we're heading in that direction and if they keep fucking over the user base there it'll happen faster than you think.

I want to make a donation to you and the site. I don't care if you've got enough funds for the server or whatever I'd at least like to buy you a few beers as my way of saying thanks for all the work you've done. You've earned it so if there's a way to make the donations happen again please let me know and I'll make it happen asap.

I don't have a Reddit account nor do I need one. '

thanks

@PuttItOut, Real Life happens. A lot. Don't sweat it. None of us are getting any younger, so deal with it the best you can. That's all anyone can ask.

Myself, I quit Reddit before I found Voat, and I haven't bothered with it since. I have no patience for SJWs, and some days it takes all I have to not shut them down for good in any public forum I encounter them. For all their claims of "tolerance" and "enlightenment", I find most of them to be the least tolerant and the most ignorant people I have ever had the misfortune to meet.

Keep doing what you're doing. If things get too far out of hand in meat-space, then find a few people you can trust to help with the load.

Thanks. I barely acknowledge that reddit still exists.

I jerked off to this. It was one of my prouder moments.

The issue with Reddit is simply the number of users frequenting subs that wouldn't be as popular here. My username is the same everywhere, or at least the places I know about.

If I post in a baseball sub, how many local supporters are here on Voat? How would you (Putt) attract those people--which is really the question. We can only use Voat, but if there's not the number of folks here to support the things we care about, it'll die quickly.

Hang in there Putts. What you're doing is important and I can't wait to see the Votes feature executed on this site.

It's ok, I'm not mad.

You just have to be patient. Reddit is banning people in the so called center. As long as Voat stays the course, remains operational, runs within the confines of law, and doesn't fuck up the user experience, and perhaps even offers better tools for moderation and has a way to prevent any one cabal from taking over the site (or at least default subs) Voat will prevail. If Voat can be a happy medium between Reddit Communism and 4Chan anarchy, It will succeed.

And noone is mad at you, you do a great job. Plus people always love the drama and freakout that an inoperable site can cause.

Voat will take over the role of reddit when reddit becomes facebook, as it appears is their goal.

Thank you for all your blood, sweat and tears, and I agree 10^1000% that free speech is supremely important for all of us.

As for neutral content, I agree completely. I have completely stopped posting, commenting, messaging or voting on reddit, only reporting a few times, and even that I have stopped, since reporting spam helps reddit. I still read reddit, though I hope to decrease that more and more. I contributed a little bit somewhat recently to /v/programming with the intention of helping building it up, among other things posting very good content when I encountered it, but ended up becoming busy with other things; I intend to contribute and participate there more in the future. /v/programming seems to have become considerably more active the last few months, which is very nice.

You need to take a paycheck from voat. Let us mine bitcoin for you. Maybe a russian murchant service will do business with you. Set up a postbox that we can send paper donations to. Voat needs to be your full time job in order for you to take it seriously.

I do appreciate everything you do, truly, but I'd like you to just force me access back to my main. It's been quite a while now.

I only go for tales from tech support because I have a list of known authors I like.

Really you just need a group of volunteers or core users dedicated to posting interesting links daily to the major default subs. A lot of defaults just have no new content for days or just one or two posts. It will take a while to build up, but it starts with actually having content there. A lot of people are happy to read or comment but have no interest in posting links, so it takes a core group to get the game going.

You can see this with Voat. A majority of Voat users still use Reddit. People use Reddit for posting and interacting when it comes to PC topics (4 wheel drive subs, movie subs, book subs, etc.). They use Voat to post the things they can’t post on Reddit. This creates an imbalance where Voat becomes increasingly un-PC, while Reddit gets the neutral content (I know even the most hardened ideologue has a level of civility). The end result is this imbalance drives people away as people wear out when confronted by content like this over the long run.

The problem I see is there is a subset of users that throw a hiss whenever someone posts content that isn't political or news. Like "get our of here with this Reddit shit" or something like that. You can't really be surprised when people don't post other content if they are met with responses like that. I can't imagine how pathetic those people are in real life if they can't take a break from the politics for one moment

Re-posting, @peaceseeker's (temporarily dead) list of pro- @puttitout support posts.

https://voat.co/v/OneTruePutt/2527698

Proofs we love ya putko.

Putt - this is not true. Many people left reddit for good. I deleted my account, left reddit. I'd love to talk here about also other topics than the "unPC" but let's face it - most people here really mainly care about political issues. This is why we are here. Thanks for the good work, don't put too much pressure on yourself, and for God's sake - arrange some financing scheme, like bank account transfers, where we could send a particular amount every month to keep this site running.

I refuse to use reddit for anything. Fuck them.

@PuttItOut

There must be SOME way users can donate to keep voat going, if you're a one man crew why couldn't there be some way to donate to you? There has to be something.

Me too.

I was a star on Reddit and well received here. Tells me we are not as different as some may think. I walked away from reddit like it was a girlfriend with mental issues,..... I know there is good in there somewhere but it ain’t my problem no more. Buh-bye

I think I will change the way I comment here from now on. Less aggressive, more wholesome......., ya like that’s gonna happen..., nope.

Oh my god I thought that this was going to be bad news, thank god it's not.

And for real Putt... thanks for doing what you're doing. It can't be easy and we all have lives that others expect us to devote to them as well and those on voat that think this should be your full time job clearly don't have a clue.

It can't be easy so thank you very much. I'd go nuts if I couldn't speak my un-PC mind to others.

If we can help, just let us know.

Thumbs up bro well said.

Thanks KD.

I know running any kind of interactive site much less one considered 'controversial' is a lot of tedious work for very little or no reward, so all you do is definitely appreciated...and fuck reddit, never used it...

I used to read reddit, heck I used to read fark long before that, I never made an account or posted on those sites, ever. And definitely never donated.

Voat is better than they ever were, as you can see I have an account here, post here (rarely), and I donated $25, and will continue to donate over time to support the community.

Thanks putt & atko & the regulars who post. I never check reddit anymore, not even the donald.

You're right in your assessments. I am happy Voat exists. It's not perfect, but it's so much better than the alternative(s).Thank you (and @Atko) for doing something for the better.

Reddit is for fags.

If occasional downtime is the price of Freedom of Speech... so be it.

Never give up, never surrender.

Thanks for everything you do, Putt.

I nuked my 7-year-old reddit account and haven't looked back. Now I get all my news from voat and /pol/. It's so refreshing to be able to say what I want to say without caring that an admin might delete my comment for "being too offensive" and also being surrounded by other people who think the same way.

This website is amazing, Putt, and all the work you've put in is certainly greatly appreciated.

Some of us would pay you, if you let us.

Thank you for all you do.

I only go to Reddit by accident, when someone on Voat posts a link leading there.

A Reddit mod shadow banned me and then doxxed me- I'll never return.

Thanks for fixing, Putt. We <3 you.

Thanks putt. U r the man...

we appreciate your time. it's the only thing we can't make more of.

Well to me voat is the last bastion of freedom of speech on the clear net, it's probably the most underrated site in the history of the interwebs

I mean without it a piece of the internet would be missing, and in fact, to serve its true purpose, the internet should work the way voat works imo, admins being there to deal with technical and legal issues only

Now mods... As long as they don't censor people's opinons and language in comment section, I'm fine with all the rules they come up with to keep their sub section on the topic it's dedicated to, but I digress

...

When it comes to “Free Speech” sites, I once believed that people cared enough about the value of free speech to make “clone” sites like Voat (or gab) successful. I’ve come to realize, and have said before, that this single factor isn’t enough. People simply do not value this right enough to make a “clone” successful.

Hm, it's not risk free you know

Not everybody is comfortable with attracting the attention of PC control freaks, in many countries it's a risky business, esepcially if you don't remain neutral and voice your 1488 opinion

Besides, not everybody is able to install and maintain such platform

And on average, who value freedom of speech, are fringe intellectuals, the masses aren't intellectuals for the most part, let alone fringe intellectuals, most of them are "happy" with the mediocrity they are fed with, they are barely capable to even begin to see what's wrong with that

I mean look

https://hooktube.com/-JEpVBlWzxA?t=55s

They're all like "duh duh yes... Water wet yes..." They struggle to mobilize more than 2 neurons at a time, it's so pathetic I pity those pets, because to me they are nothing but pets, system's pets, dumb consumers, the ideal "citizen" of 2032, at this point you could replace them with bots, given the right physical appearance nobody could tell the difference

Idiocracy was a fucking prophecy

Shall we continue?

Yes

A majority of Voat users still use Reddit.

What? No. BURN THE REDDITURDS! Hunt them down like pigs.

I have a bit less fight in me (getting old does this), I have a bit more struggle in life.

I don't want to sound naive but once you get most of the bugs worked out doesn't this bus have cruise control? Put the animals in the cage and see who's holding a bloody chainsaw in the morning. VOAT DOME.

P.S. Downtime today was because of a full disk

Yeah whatever, no biggee. You're doing fine, let us know when the money runs out.

Probably all those fuckers using imgur

Poal.co

Seems putt is worried about people looking for alternatives.

You’re finding it hard for Voat to give your life purpose lately, but believe us, Voat and yourself help give our lives purpose.

I go to reddit for the LENR sub once a month. I just don't understand how voat is not successful? If it's money? Fuck man have a subscription service with a special room. I would pay $10 a month for a fancy name graphic here on voat. I bet a ton would do the same. It would be a good shill filter as well.

You could hire a fucking staff to do the shit you hate and you can just lounge around and bang hot bitches all day or whatever. The world needs voat. We all have your back... TO. THE. END. Whatever that end may be. put out some Job applications here and fir-real hire some old skool voaters to help with the work using the subscription money.

I like your idea of what you are building. Finish it and it will gain support. You are a fucking legend man. It's worth the fight. It really is.

When it comes to “Free Speech” sites, I once believed that people cared enough about the value of free speech to make “clone” sites like Voat (or gab) successful.

Free speech alone might not be enough to drive these sites up to mass usage levels however They are CRITICAL to routing out corruption. This is the place people go to post stuff that will be censored everywhere else. It is a kind of the ghost sub of reddit.

You're doing a great job. I can't stand reddit and never go there. Sure this place is a little rough at times but that's the price of free speech.

I only go to reddit to get banned for posting the FBI crime statistics on every thread about American gun crime.

Facts are racist.

A suggestion: Allow people or even default to a Safe Search option, but allow people to have uncensored access very easily. This could take space on the front page in an easy to see spot. The Safe Search could be attempted to be implemented by not allowing certain words/phrases/groups of certain topics to reach others before they've entered.

If you really want to get over that issue you will have to compromise a bit. You will have to do what Huffman did. You will have to have several bot accounts that scrape reddit and repost "neutral" content to vote, then you will have to drive artificial traffic to that content. You will have to have community managers to get the community engaged and growing. It's not cheap or easy.

Do what you have to do. But please appoint a spam sledgehammer. These accounts that comment enough to get 10 CCP and then start spamming their site bur never comment again so they retain posting rights. BRING BACK CYNABUNS, or give me the job. All I do here already is expose and attempt to shame spammers.

Keep up the good work. We appreciate it!

I've actually lived out my car....a 1975 Olds Delta 88 ... it had a basement ! It was that big.

You did not let me down.

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=z9nkzaOPP6g

Totally unrelated music vid ...^^

The time off I put to good use !

I think your a fan of Ready Player One ... the ending.

Full disk? I have an extra 3.5" floppy if ya need it !

You haven't let me down. I understand the complexity of what you are doing solo and am appreciative.

Thanks for the time and effort!!

Yay! More adventures to look forward to, together!

Thanks for fixing this and once again THANK YOU for Voat, BIG TIME!

Have a great evening Sir :) and thanks to /u/derram for finding and locating the error.

Thanks for still caring. Left Reddit when I joined here and haven't gone back since. Deleted the account back then, anyway.

I don't use that PC shit hole

Actually, for me @PuttItOut, I do not use Reddit at all anymore. This site is my "news ticker", and I've been happy with it ever since. Sure, it has its shills and regular rabble-rousers, but I've come to see that as a sign that the fight for freedom of speech is not lost here. With those other sites, controversial posts and conversations are being swept from the screen ...in some cases, automatically.

It's true that everyday people have been conditioned through popular culture to see the content here as a sign of un-health, but I would disagree with that notion. This is not a town center; it's not a courtroom; it's not even a cafe where people are expected to all huddle in their corners and let only their own representatives (gifted with diplomacy) speak for them. This is more like a young soccer team at an away game with a young coach to make sure the bus still runs. We are free to banter, tell sick jokes and gripe about all the things that come to our minds freely without fear of being silenced in stark contrast to a world filled with people who want to wield their power to shut us up.

I think you're on to something with your new idea for community rules-making. And it's kinda like what Reddit did right... however, they went WAY WRONG when money entered the picture. Advertisement dollars corrupted their process so badly that some major (and wealthy) interests used the one tool in their inventory to turn it into a "cash cow" that THEY could control. The community based model was then corrupted (because of money) and they gradually turned that Good Ship "Reddit" into an all-seeing, all-controlling tyrant forum with little left for speech freedoms.

Just keep at it @PuttItOut, I'll still be here. And if this were to disappear, I would have to go somewhere else (not Reddit, for damn sure) to be a curmudgeon. There are still people that hate this place, because their masters tell them to. Sort of a good sign, in my book. Just remember that Jack Nicholson segment from Easy Rider where he talks about when people actually see someone who is free. https://hooktube.com/watch?v=Gc11mJGre10

Thank you for your service.

Thanks for everything you do! I haven't used Reddit since I made a voat account! If you need funding or whatever don't be afraid to ask.

Reddit is shit I dont trust anything being put on there as genuine and I like the discussion this place generates. I'll keep using voat till the wheels fall off.

Wow, he lives...

We desperately need Voat to continue and I will be happy to donate to help that happen. This place is not a Reddit clone and that's what makes it great.

First off, if you have the idea that this place will one day be the "next" Reddit or something, I'd say give up on that idea immediately. No site that welcomes true free speech will never be mainstream because opinions outside the mainstream are welcome. This is one reason why Reddit is so hostile to free speech now. As sites get bigger, they tend to get more bland and restrictive. The world needs sites that welcome content that corporate beancounters don't want.

When companies start all small, they are usually more true to mission and principles. As they get bigger they "sell out" and want to maximize their audience and profits and that means conforming to the lowest common denominator.

Do not compromise the principles of the site in fear of "driving people away" Anyone is welcome to use the site and submit content and if they don't like the other content or the community, the site isn't for them.

Second, you need to setup better methods for people to help support the site. As I mentioned earlier, I would be happy to chip in a few bucks every few months and I'm sure thousands of others would as well.

I know I’ve not met your expectations of an admin or a leader.

Who has ever said you're "our" leader?

i have only used reddit to know what has happened to voat since i have no liason anywhere else.but yeah i dont think the issue is solved yet because just 30 mins ago i was unable to post anything giving me the exact message that caused the problem to begin with.

yup,agree hypocrisy is rampant people that were chased out of reddit for their beliefs go back there to interact with the same people that scorned them but that's human nature.

seems like you are tired so why dont you share your responsabilities with other people?it'll be easier that way,anyway

at any rate,the way things are going it seems that we are going to see more blackouts in the future and sadly people will get tired and more will leave the site for just its issues.

i have made my peace,nothing is eternal in this world so if this sites becomes worse to browse or stop working altogether then i will go back to the other hobbies that i had before finding v/neofag ......

meh

Thanks for your time. Thanks for Voat. Again, you don't need to carry the weight by yourself. I hope you find the right people to help you with this monumental task. Hang in there.
PS: Fuck Reddit.

You've never let me down @puttitout. And my opinion is the most important. I am the GUN. @peaceseeker give this man "the list" you compiled a few months ago.

And most of us still believe in freedom of speech. As for voats "success". Well....what is your definition of success? X number of users? Profitability? Positive zero cost sustainability?

Most goats want voat to grow bigger because a lot of good people who aren't interested in politics have left. But almost no goats want voat to be reddit sized. We like knowing each-other. Reddit size and speed is horseshit. One improvement i would suggest is algorithm improvement. An option for people to reduce the content of a sub on their front page, v/news and v/politics for example, without having to actually fully block it.

As far as i'm concerned, voat is a success, as it holds the title of "the most free site on the internet". I am regularly banned even from places like 4chan. 8chan bans, various "nazi" sites ban, gab bans, phuks bans. ONLY voat does not ban. You made something, that is No 1. in the world at one particular thing. And that's no small thing.