First off, I need to say that I know I’ve let a lot of you down (if not all). I know I’ve not met your expectations of an admin or a leader. I have no excuses as even I feel this way about myself. I won’t make attempts for empathy, I will only acknowledge the truth, and it is such.
Life is full of surprises. You can be rich one minute and living out of your car the next. You can be healthy one year and a regular in the doctor’s office the following. You can have life figured out only to discover you know nothing in the end. The only constant in life is change.
My life is not the same it was when I first met @Atko and started working on Voat. I have much less time, I have a bit less fight in me (getting old does this), I have a bit more struggle in life. These life changes have forced me to put Voat on the back burner (which hurts me).
Let’s get real
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.
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 makes a clone not a clone?
Why I mention this in the first place is that I know a “clone” site will not become sustainable based on Freedom of Speech so I’ve tried to revolutionize the “community” aspect of Voat by providing a way the community itself can “vote” on policy (rules, mods, anything actually). It's the future capability of this feature-set that is appealing. A community can become self-sustaining and self-manageable through this new technology. After all, the draw of sites like Voat or Reddit is that it is community-oriented vs. self-oriented.
And I’m going to finish it. I’m going to finish it for me. I’m going to finish it for you. I’m going to finish it for Voat. I’m going to finish it for Freedom of Speech (because I still believe in this ideal).
I’m going to finish it because a “clone” site with no differentiation but policy will never succeed.
So Voat, please forgive me for my shortcomings if you can, and expect my work to continue on making Voat a truly unique website.
Soon.
P.S. Downtime today was because of a full disk (Thanks @derram for letting me know). We had an issue from about a year ago that inflated some files to crazy sizes and I took the time today to deal with this. So the next downtime should be something completely different! Yay!
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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Tallest_Skil ago
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.
mightnotbearobot ago
So you want to limit free speech?
Tallest_Skil ago
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.
mightnotbearobot ago
wow u mad
Tallest_Skil ago
Thanks for admitting you were objectively wrong. Kill yourself, traitor.
mightnotbearobot ago
Nah mate its just that I took a massive shite just now and I could smell it while I read your thing
Tallest_Skil ago
Thanks for admitting you were objectively wrong. Go fellate jewish lies somewhere else.