I can't stand by and watch stuff like this happen around here. I will not support subverses (by featuring them or making them defaults) with moderators who impose questionable rules such as "your post has to end with a questionmark". Moderators need to calm their tits and focus on nurturing and growing their communities. Rules can always be bent and what better time to bend the rules then now, while Voat is still growing and under development?
I am thankful for moderators who help keep Voat spam-free and I respect your work. I really do. I started working on automoderator for comments and submissions and your job will be made much easier when this is implemented, but for the time being, moderators need to relax and focus on removing spam and eventual illegal content. If I submit a new post and it gains some traction (hundreds of comments, views and upvoats), and my post gets removed because I broke a rule by forgetting to include a question mark in my submission title... well, I would be pissed. People take removal of their comments and submissions very seriously and moderators must think twice before removing stuff if they want to avoid offending users. Voat has a ranking process where time acts as gravity and older posts will eventually fall off the frontpage. Voat also has automatic public moderation logs and everything you remove will still be visible in these modlogs and your actions may be questioned by the community, just like what happened yesterday.
This action can be reverted if /askvoat mods can convince us that the issue has been dealt with or if some other, less restrictive community takes over.
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JustBeingTruthful ago
You literally just restored my faith in Voat! Thank you @atko! After yesterday I really thought we were heading in the exact same direction as reddit. I hope everyone continues to realize the we don't need human moderators when we have a proper upvote/downvote system.
Personally, I believe the only way way Voat can continue to move in the right direction is if we get rid of human moderators all together. We should just use very light computer automoderators, and rely completely on the upvote/downvote system. It has been shown time and time again that a human moderator cannot mod without bias. Also, they just let the power get to their head like they're actually needed. I consider them a pest and feel the only people that do want them to stay are somehow involved in moderation themselves.
Before, forums needed mods because anything that was posted would show and the users would have no method to deal with it. With the upvote/downvote system, we can do it ourselves. When people say that, the response is always, "But you need moderators! The subs will become the Wild Wild West! Just anarchy and spam everywhere!" Well guess what, that's just not true and you only have that opinion because your ego-boosting imaginary job is being threatened.
I care about this community and will do my part to keep it safe from SJW's moderators, whoever is censoring our users in any way. Fuck them.
Thanks again @atko!