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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drozzxd ago
The globalists won't be defeated without free speech sites like voat. Thanks for sticking it out.
Tallest_Skil ago
Censorship: BYPASSED 2
The jews won’t be exterminated if you’re too much of a fucking pussy to call them by their name, either.
Look at all these fucking kikes downvoting me with their sockpuppets and bots.
FairDinkum ago
why "exterminate" anybody? IF people were told The Truth from the beginning and we had a 'fair' system of world trade, there's a good chance everyone would be able to do "ok" i.e. no homeless on the streets of the US (a country that currently has hundreds of thousands of vacant homes)
people across the world could Stop arguing and fighting and join together to make everyone's Lives the 'excellent experience' it could/should be
Tallest_Skil ago
Why do the only thing that will actually solve the problem we have? Gee, I don’t know.
Doesn’t matter. Eventually the jews take over the schools and stop teaching useful shit and telling the truth. Every. Single. Time. Always. Without fail. For MILLENNIA.
Eventually the jews take over the banks, get rid of gold, and create fiat and usury. Every single time.
Without the Fed, the US would not only be PHYSICALLY larger right now, homelessness as a concept would likely not register for anyone. Never mind the technological advancements.
Fuck your multiculturalist bullshit. Fuck your propaganda. YOU’VE BEEN BRAINWASHED FROM BIRTH TO THINK THIS IS GOOD. We’re not supposed to join together. We’re supposed to war. We’re supposed to live in exclusively white nations or exclusively black nations. That’s the ONLY healthy behavior.
FairDinkum ago
And where the fuck do the Asianns fit in? Or the "half black" people? I guess you'd kill them right? Social purity and eugenics at it's finest ... says the quaran
Seriously.
Says who? WHO TAUGHT YOU THIS?
Yep, as you say, it's You who 'made it up' from your own half assed beliefs and smoking too many cones while playing FPS games all day at your mom's?
(btw; Your poor English shows you're NOT an American (or English speaking country born, person) Maybe you are a bot! lol Definitely an agro idiot
You are projecting your beliefs .... who taught you these things? An AI?
I KNOW for a fact you weren't 'born' or even spent the first few YEARS of your life NOT thinking about such shit, so, pray tell who TAUGHT YOU these 'beliefs' -- they are nothing more. Who 'gives You the 'right' to decree' what's "right" or "wrong"?
NOBODY except yourself.
Really? Says who? WHO TOLD YOU THAT? You didn't "make it up all by yourself" did you now?
really? Who TAUGHT YOU that? The quaran? WTF is "war" good for? Tell me ONE thing where "war *helped" anyone but the banksters?
And IF that's the case, "why aren't YOU out there 'fighting (useless) wars'? (for the people WHO TOLD YOU all this violent, racist shit you believe)
Are you a coward or just full of shit?
When was the last time you had a REAL Fight? Ever?
Tallest_Skil ago
In exclusively Asian nations. Do you really need your fucking hand held?
Not in white nations. Mulattos and zambos will have to either make their own or defend themselves in black nations.
lol, project harder
There is literally nothing wrong with eugenics, you hypocritical motherfucker. Every species on Earth is selectively bred. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Nope.
Nope.
Says common sense. Says all scientific studies ever done since the dawn of man. Says every nation since the dawn of man. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
You don’t need to be taught instinct, you braindead psychopath.
Holy fucking Christ, go back to reddit. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Everything I said is fact. Prove it wrong if it’s wrong.
Are you fucking insane? Clinically, that is. Nowhere have I used improper grammar. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Born and raised, moishe.
You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Nope, truth is not a matter of opinion. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Okay, run along. You are clinically insane.
You are brainwashed. You are mentally ill. You are a communist stooge. Truth is not a matter of opinion. Facts don’t care about your feelings. Your subjectivist bullshit is a lie. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Truth is not a matter of opinion, kid. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Says common sense. Says all scientific studies ever done since the dawn of man. Says every nation since the dawn of man. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Says common sense. Says all scientific studies ever done since the dawn of man. Says every nation since the dawn of man. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Learn how to spell, hypocrite.
Let’s see… the Crusades, the Inquisition, the American wars, the European wars of conquest in Africa, the European wars of conquest in Asia… Oh, and quite a few of the Roman conquests. Why? Are you really that stupid? Do you know what antibiotics are?
Name the jew, coward.
Because I don’t fight useless wars, dipshit. Stop posting strawmen and you’ll get an answer.
No one told me what is innately known by all humans, YOU BRAIN DAMAGED LUNATIC.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING COMMUNIST FAGGOT. HE THINKS RACISM IS BAD. HE HAS NO ARGUMENT WHATSOEVER
lol, false dichotomy
Post your address, paid shill, and we’ll make it tomorrow. You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
resperat ago
Don't think that you've provided much of an argument besides "it's da joos" either
Tallest_Skil ago
Hi, new paid shill sockpuppet account! Thanks for exposing yourself before you had any points, completely destroying your work!
You have no argument. You have no refutation. You have no evidence. You have nothing to add.
Everything I have said is cited and sourced. It’s all fact. What do YOU have to prove me wrong, shlomo? Go on. Try.
resperat ago
Last I checked "all scientific studies ever done since the dawn of man" doesn't abide by any citation standard that I know of. Even if I was trying to prove you wrong, no matter what I'd give you I bet that you'd paint it as the work of "the jews" anyways
No, my point was that you're telling the person you're so graciously discussing these matters with that he's made no arguments, while you've really made none of your own. You've given literally nothing besides one line replies to his one line replies, and most of them are half formed thoughts at best (just reread what you wrote). As such, you are in no position to claim some sort of intellectual high ground and tell him he has no argument, because really you have just as little of an argument as him. That is all. And now I will collect my 1 shekel
Tallest_Skil ago
Check harder, then, you illiterate fuck.
Don’t bother; you can’t.
Thanks for admitting that you have nothing to give.
You’ll never know, will you? Because you don’t have anything and are too scared to post it if you were.
Prove my statement wrong, then.
Except I have.
Try harder.
And you think you deserve more when you’ve ALREADY BEEN PROVEN WRONG?
They’re in reply to his posts. Take a moment to think about why they might be that way.
Proven false.