After the first Open Thread last week, we would like to keep experimenting with this weekly discussion format, so here you go.

The purpose of this thread is simple: to let you discuss anything and everything that, as per the rules of this subverse, wouldn't be allowed in submission form. This is an experiment with giving the community back some of its freedoms inherently lost in the approach of maintaining a strictly investigative environment, all the while maintaining that environment outside of the Open Thread.

Seize this opportunity to ask the community your most pressing questions, discuss meta strategies, or absolutely anything that the community is interested in.

Comments will be moderated according to the very liberal rule (3) of the Moderator Rules. Beyond that, this thread should be self-moderated by the community using votes.

One relevant issue that was recently brought to our attention and we would like to address is that the Submission Removal Log only goes back about eight days, depending on how heavy the traffic is. People have been concerned that some removed submissions that would otherwise provide good content for another subverse such as /v/pizzagatewhatever are never resubmitted by their original authors and, as a result, lost forever. Fortunately, this is not the case. While the log itself doesn't go back beyond 20 pages, submissions deleted earlier than the last log entry are not wiped from Voat's database, they can still be accessed if one has the link to them. Therefore, the best way to find your way back to a submission like this is by bookmarking it while it's still accessible. There is also nothing stopping you from submitting the link to one of these deleted posts on another subverse, archiving their content, or a combination of both.