There has been a lot of discussion and drama re modding lately. We have multiple camps of opinions.
I want whats best for this sub. I'm not an experienced mod but I can see that leaving everything to its own devices has led to a lot of circlejerk, concern trolling, waste of space submissions.
This subverse is for the investigation of pizzagate connections, to further our understanding of the situation and find more relationships and potentially some evidence.
We are all concerned about shills and the subverse being compromised. Make no mistake, shills are here and in great force. They are trying to create drama, they are trying to frame us as racists, they are trying to mislead us and they are trying to distract us.
To that end, I am going to put the following rules in place and as mods we will start to enforce them. The purpose of these rules is to concentrate the efforts here and facilitate meaningful dialogue, as well as remove all the noise. This is going to be hard. Sorting things is hard. We will make mistakes. We will ask you guys for input. Please feel free to check the mod logs at all times and call us out if you have any objections.
These rules are open for discussion, below. Please let me know your thoughts.
1. Concern trolling posts will be deleted unless substantiated or adding significant value
There are currently a number of concern troll posts - such as concerns about antisemitism (that have zero examples or proof), concerns about the fact that we're doing it wrong etc. Concern trolling adds no value to the sub, it clutters it. We want to hear your concerns, you can IM us or use the @ handle.
2. Zero tolerance for spam
Spam posts will be deleted and users banned.
3. Title/picture only posts with no explanation
This is an investigation, explain how your submission is linked in. Dont be lazy.
Like I mentioned, I'm new to modding. We may add more rules as you guys comment below, and we may change the above. But for now I'm going to do a bit of a cleanup, feel free to provide feedback. I'm sick of the state of things as much as you guys.
If you want to be helpful, here's a link to the previous sticky which we will reinstate soon. It contains direction and where to focus - https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1434672
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philomath ago
Edit - after re-reading your post, I would like you to clarify what you intend to do with posts that violate your rules.
Just my opinion, but you're making a mistake. A big one. This isn't reddit.
The entire ecosystem here is set up to allow user moderation through upvoats and downvoats. It makes navigation more difficult and slower because you do have to weed through stuff you don't agree with and don't want to see, but that is a worthwhile sacrifice. It ensures that authoritarian individuals don't get the power to speak for the entire community. While I'm sure your intentions are good, they may not always be, or those that come after you may not be.
I think you need to get the community more accustomed to speaking with the voats and letting them moderate themselves. It's a change and will not feel normal overnight, but is the right thing to do. Jumping into Voat waters and imposing reddit customs is wrong. It's against everything we stand for, and I'm frankly a little shocked at your eagerness to do so.
Spuddlebuns ago
Point is, this is NOT your usual, 'Stream of Consciousness,' post any stupid outrageous shit you want, just because you can subverse. As has been CLEARLY pointed out over and over and OVER again,
This subverse is for the investigation of pizzagate connections, to further our understanding of the situation and find more relationships and potentially some evidence.
THIS subverse is not for the morons and trolls to shit all over everything just because they are uncensored. There are other topics to go squat on. Not here.
smashbery ago
so you ported to voat bc you were getting sensored/shutdown now your attempting to sensor/shut people down bc it does not fit your agenda... i truly think you need to re-read the "rules" of voat. hell im new here to but i have been looking for voat my entire life ... let the people handle it seems to be there bottom line ... yeah there may be dick fuck shit posters but there voats dick fuck shit posters let voat handle voat , fuck the system people need to grow and learn on there own, a shit poster today might be the next lord Kek tomorrow. regardless of what ever noble cause it is, take your monarchy and shove it up your ass. you want to start pizzagate foundation were you want to be lord Kek then do it, there are plenty of servers to be rented . as for now take the dick out of your ears and put it back in your mouth where it belongs. faggot jew crout.
Spuddlebuns ago
GOOD. Let the moron whiners go find another server to shit on.
This subverse is for the investigation of pizzagate connections, to further our understanding of the situation and find more relationships and potentially some evidence.
It's NOT for the downtrodden trolls who need to post stupid shit for LULZ, or inject their own personal stupid bias regarding joos, niggahs, or peanut butter sammiches, okay? Is it REALLY that hard for some of you to simply grasp that "time and place," means some things are inappropriate in some situations? Are you REALLY so poorly educated in simple social behaviors that you cannot conduct yourselves with any sense of the world in which you are performing? Well, suck it up, little snowflake. THIS subverse has a SPECIFIC purpose in existing. This subverse is for the investigation of pizzagate connections, to further our understanding of the situation and find more relationships and potentially some evidence.
If you cannot play nice with others, without shitting in the sandbox, then guess what? You may get kicked out of the sandbox. It's not censorship, so much as common intelligence of time and place.
If you have something that CONTRIBUTES, instead of just showing us your dick hanging out because you think it funny to do so, PLEASE, join us, and share.
If you can only post stupid biased shit just because YOU think it hilarious to do so, just go die now. We won't miss you, promise.
OH, and if you think you can come here, and start bitching about how the site is being run, PLEASE double fuck off and die. Go start your OWN little shitty sandbox, bub. As you say, there are PLENTY of servers to be rented. Don't come here and tell the people who own it how YOU would run the joint. Take your bossy-ass self and SHOW US on your OWN server, eh???