I made legitimate attempts in r/pizzagate to out shills, heavily monitor the modding, and keep people on track.
Since a lot of people are seemingly moving here, just be warned that I've also made the transfer. I'll do my best to remain vigilante, but please fucking quit shit posting. This shit is important now. We need to keep the posting limited to useful info and not cheerleading, not bullshit emotional appeals, no more theories or discussions about why or how pedos do it.
KEEP INCOMING THREADS CONCISE AND DETAILED. STOP ADDING TO THE NOISE.
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SarMegahhikkitha ago
All the new people need to know this isn't Reddit. Reddit culture is meaningless here. Don't export it here. Pun threads, low-effort jokes, and memeshit are cancer and will be treated as such.
Didot ago
Yet the user of the top-voted post in this thread posted a thread criticizing the OP for this this very thing. The hell is this. So far I've read two submissions from /v/whatever claiming low-quality posts are frowned upon—the very thing this OP is criticizing—yet he gets criticized by that same sub. At this point Voat users are making themselves out to be hostile to any newcomers, regardless of what they post.
SarMegahhikkitha ago
@TheodoreKent and I are touchy for the same reason: 8-hour old accounts already trying to enforce their culture here. Strict moderation is Reddit culture. It's less necessary because there are fewer low-information idiots killing the signal-to-noise with movie references (again, Reddit culture). Voat culture is to say "Fuck you" to Reddit culture but not concern troll that "something needs to be done" about it. Because when you do that /v/SoapDoxBanHammer uses it as a pretext to further consolidate control of the site for SRS, and that's bad for everyone.
Didot ago
It's only been like that as Voat has had extremely low traffic until such migrations (which is obvious from nearly every sub on the site). With a mass migration the same issues that faced the Reddit sub equally apply here. And it's not an issue of censorship but both one of noise and also because this community is coming under closer scrutiny for its claims now that the mainstream media is aware of it and trying to make out the controversy has no strong evidence—hence the OP's call for more focus on evidence bases leads.
Someone suggesting that users could be more thoughtful in their posts is not censorship. Heck, I'm not even sure if anyone claiming it is is even a part of the pizzagate community, it seems they're just coming in to police the community–again, why does this even concern others on Voat? Voat is supposedly mean to have sub communities which work out things on their own.
In my parent post I'm explaining the hypocrisy of some Voat users who will simultaneously claim they shun low-quality posts while also whining on another sub about the very thing the OP is criticizing. It's like they're both in agreement yet because one is a newcomer they want to find something to criticize. Yes, the OP could have had better responses to some things but that doesn't invalidate the OP's original thread post.