NO. Every credit card company is a private company and free to run things as they please but yet everyone deplatforms things they don't like thus throwing 1st and 2nd amendment rights away "because they're private companies." Fuck that shit. The USERS make this site, not the mods. If the users don't want it, the users get to say that. So fuck off with your Jew shit.
The users as a whole do. They are the ones that make up voat. If a group of users who act do nonsense like this make up 25% of voat's popular subs, users go away and voat disappears.
It's simple: the users don't want that kind of nonsense. Either demod him or lose users.
Edit: this is the same toxic nonsense that's eating up reddit.
No friend, a mod deciding rules for their subverse isn't what drives people away, it's these annoying hissfits you people keep throwing every time a new subverse pops up that you don't like.
Ya know, the ones where you openly declare your intentions to continue fucking with the people of that subverse until they leave the site, and after which you cheer the fact that you have driven them off the site.
People are afraid to move to Voat because if a certain group doesn't like what a new subverse is about or what rules are instituted, that group will dedicate weeks trying to destroy the new subverse.
There's a sub mod and then there's sub mods who practice moderation antithetical to voat's theme.
Which do you care about? The letter of the law or the spirit of the law? So to speak.
The letter of the law will be used to manipulate forums, speech, people. The spirit of the law (enforcing it as it was intended) is what keeps shit from getting worse.
When you defend manipulation with the approach of "letter of the law", you are giving a free pass to those who would subvert it.
People aren't afraid to move to voat because of being run off. People are afraid of moving to voat for exactly 2 reasons:
They're thin skinned and need hugboxes.
They're part of a community that needs something a little calmer because of the type of community.
Voat's not a calm hugbox place. I'll admit that instantly. People who need hugboxes should not go where there are none in order to change the community.
And in case you haven't noticed, voat isn't a place that supports open borders. Attempting to allow everyone in so that they can set up rules that go against voat's spirit is akin to saying "Diversity is our strength."
Speaking of the toxic nonsense that's eating up reddit.
Back when reddit was half decent, the standing rule was to make your own subreddit if you didn't like how a mod was exercising their power. That lasted until a group came along and decided it would be better to force everyone else to behave a certain way in order to "protect the community."
Also, this is a website and not a cult. Everyone is indeed allowed to post here, free speech is free speech.
And everyone is allowed to whine and complain about cancer mods. If by "driving people off" you actually mean "free speech," it's incredibly self-contradictory. Because, you know, it's not like there's a keyboard thug that smacks you every time you say "bad words."
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Seventh_Jim ago
Not a default verse. He's free to be as much of an autistic faggot as he wants.
totes_magotes ago
NO. Every credit card company is a private company and free to run things as they please but yet everyone deplatforms things they don't like thus throwing 1st and 2nd amendment rights away "because they're private companies." Fuck that shit. The USERS make this site, not the mods. If the users don't want it, the users get to say that. So fuck off with your Jew shit.
derram ago
Yes, and that decision is made by you making your own subverse to give the users a choice.
You don't get to decide what other people do with their subverses.
totes_magotes ago
The users as a whole do. They are the ones that make up voat. If a group of users who act do nonsense like this make up 25% of voat's popular subs, users go away and voat disappears.
It's simple: the users don't want that kind of nonsense. Either demod him or lose users.
Edit: this is the same toxic nonsense that's eating up reddit.
derram ago
No friend, a mod deciding rules for their subverse isn't what drives people away, it's these annoying hissfits you people keep throwing every time a new subverse pops up that you don't like.
Ya know, the ones where you openly declare your intentions to continue fucking with the people of that subverse until they leave the site, and after which you cheer the fact that you have driven them off the site.
People are afraid to move to Voat because if a certain group doesn't like what a new subverse is about or what rules are instituted, that group will dedicate weeks trying to destroy the new subverse.
totes_magotes ago
There's a sub mod and then there's sub mods who practice moderation antithetical to voat's theme.
Which do you care about? The letter of the law or the spirit of the law? So to speak.
The letter of the law will be used to manipulate forums, speech, people. The spirit of the law (enforcing it as it was intended) is what keeps shit from getting worse.
When you defend manipulation with the approach of "letter of the law", you are giving a free pass to those who would subvert it.
People aren't afraid to move to voat because of being run off. People are afraid of moving to voat for exactly 2 reasons:
They're thin skinned and need hugboxes.
They're part of a community that needs something a little calmer because of the type of community.
Voat's not a calm hugbox place. I'll admit that instantly. People who need hugboxes should not go where there are none in order to change the community.
And in case you haven't noticed, voat isn't a place that supports open borders. Attempting to allow everyone in so that they can set up rules that go against voat's spirit is akin to saying "Diversity is our strength."
derram ago
Speaking of the toxic nonsense that's eating up reddit.
Back when reddit was half decent, the standing rule was to make your own subreddit if you didn't like how a mod was exercising their power. That lasted until a group came along and decided it would be better to force everyone else to behave a certain way in order to "protect the community."
Also, this is a website and not a cult. Everyone is indeed allowed to post here, free speech is free speech.
totes_magotes ago
And everyone is allowed to whine and complain about cancer mods. If by "driving people off" you actually mean "free speech," it's incredibly self-contradictory. Because, you know, it's not like there's a keyboard thug that smacks you every time you say "bad words."