100 CCP is yet again a requirement to downvote and changes I pushed yesterday are now reverted. I spent about 6 hours yesterday reading your comments on my announcement and I think it's pretty clear that majority of you had concerns with removing restrictions. Back to the drawing board I guess. Please accept my apologies for causing the mess.
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fightforthehive ago
Thank you for listening to community. It gives me great hope about the future of the site.
Arotaes_Forgehammer ago
I feel like we have a chance to break the endless cycle of corporitization and sanitization constructed by Digg and Reddit. Atko and Puttitout are very strong tools for building the social network that we want.
We love you, guys.
ThizzBoss ago
eventually he's going to want to get paid. Everyone wants to make money off their work and get rich young.
Pissed-Off-Panda ago
He should get paid, both of them should. It's called reaping the rewards of your hard work.
hels ago
I agree and disagree.
It was Atko's choice to start voat and from the start he stated he wants free speech and is not looking for advertisers.
Once someone starts making money they usually begin to think, "how can I make more money?" It's why redd1t sold out and is controlled by advertisers now.
If the voat community decided to pay Atko he might be content with anything received. However, my point above still stands.
No_Regretzky ago
Not many people in life have time to run a major website as a hobbies (with jobs/wife/kids). At one point, you need to make this your job and it needs to find a way to make money or else the site dies. A way that I can see them make money and keep their values is by donation and selling ads spaces to the community (the community can choose if they want their add black, be a post, maybe their small business or just a thank you message). The problem is, I am not sure if that will make enough money to run a site.