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abortionburger ago

How much power do you think we have over Voat? What on earth would lead you to believe that we can edit the site itself?

VieBleu ago

can't you ping VictorSteinerDavion? you have more clout as a mod than we do. Will you try it and get back to us or bring him here?

SecondAmendment ago

For what it's worth, mods, the "search" button on my computer is fine. Never had any problems with it.

abortionburger ago

Really? I can't get any searches to come up.

SecondAmendment ago

WHOA! I stand corrected. I was wrong! I posted that the searches were working because earlier today the search bar was, in fact, working fine. But just now when I tried a few searches I got an error message that said:

"Well this is embarrassing. Something went wrong and let's face it, nobody's happy about it. We'll dispatch our monstersquad to take a look at it right away!"

Sorry, @abortionburger. I should have checked before stating that it worked because, as of a few minutes ago, I could not get a search to work, either. Sorry.

abortionburger ago

It's all good! Good to know it's down for everyone. Mine hasn't worked in days, @vindicator was speculating that maybe it's a browser cache clearing issue.

Vindicator ago

Not that I would actually know, being a tech retard. Was just hypothesizing this would explain the variance between users. Search was up for a while after the posts linked by @awarenessadventurer above, but right around the April Fools UI change, it went byebye again.

Awareness, did you see my comment in the April Fools Day sticky over the weekend? Mods are as in-the-dark about this as users. There is only one Voat admin, @PuttItOut, the owner of Voat, who runs it in his spare time. Busy guy. I've pinged him a few times about the impact on our end, but he has never responded.

awarenessadventurer ago

Puttitout is also a founder/registered owner of this site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voat (public info, not a dox)

Founded in April 2014 as WhoaVerse, the website was initially a hobby project by a BSc student, Atif Colo (known on Voat as @Atko), who was later joined by Justin Chastain (known as @PuttItOut).[14][15] The website has been labelled as an alternative to Reddit with a focus on freedom of expression.[5][12][16] In December 2014, WhoaVerse changed its name to Voat for ease of use.[17]

Vindicator ago

Yes, I was just looking at his comment history to see what he might be up to -- looks like he has been neck deep in Voat Chat. Incidentally, this is how I find out what is going on around here: Go to v/AskVoat, v/VoatDev, v/announcements, v/ProtectVoat, NEW, and see if anyone has posted on the subject. However, titles of posts are not always indicative of actual content (cause few subs have rules requiring it), so you have to click and drill. :)

awarenessadventurer ago

I think we know all we need to about this forum, about all of it. For me, its obvious. ITS NOT SAFE HERE. WE ARE PART OF A LARGER CONTROL EXPERIMENT, "AI" driven. I am not interested in being a lab rat.

SecondAmendment ago

Yup. I swear. I'll search something right now and post a link to the results. Hang on. . . .

awarenessadventurer ago

I have not ONE SINGLE IDEA. but something is wrong and this site is compromised. Perhaps not you, but someone. If the Mods dont know then WHO DOES? You all must have some ideas, if anyone does. Why nothing on this? The reasons keep changing... someone is behind it. If it is not MODS then we should all be digging deep into who does control VOAT.

enlighten us on the answers to the questions you posted in this message. they may be helpful.

abortionburger ago

All we know is that we keep messaging admins and they won't respond. We're like the black sheep of Voat around here.

VieBleu ago

why do you stay? you were doing a lot of interesting, active work before you got modded here.

Vindicator ago

What makes you think she stopped? You don't think mods post their research under their mod names do you? That would be pretty dickish. We have alts for posting research, so that it can be judged on its own merits.

VieBleu ago

BTFO keep your nose in your own business Nellie. The question has nothing to do with you and was not directed at you.

Vindicator ago

All the "shit-stirring trolls" have something to do with me, VieBleu. I have users pinging me all day about the topic. If you don't want my nose in your business, you are in the wrong place. It's a public forum.

VieBleu ago

Your boss is cozy with DynCorp, that traffics.kids. "Winokur served as DynCorp CEO from 1989 to 1997. Pug Winokur made DynCorp what it is today and he still sits on the board. I was not surprised when Bill Hamilton confirmed to both Fitts and to me that Winokur's DynCorp had played a role in the evolution of Promis in the 1980s. Palantir, an audited interface to PROMIS, was co-founded by Peter Thiel who is also the current chairman.[35]" http://pizzagate.wiki/DynCorp

That's all that needs to be said regarding your integrity.

Did you get your bonus for hobbling the protest? Maybe that vacation you desire so much? What a good pet goat you are.

Mencomot ago

Why no (M) tag on this post?

abortionburger ago

done

awarenessadventurer ago

That is good to know. I think the MODS SHOULD start making a ruckus and asking serious questions on this forum. Why carry the burden? Lets call these fuckers out, whomever they are. I have not a clue.

sensitive ago

We are working on a strategy ...

abortionburger ago

We're working on it. We've got a good search alternative, about to make a post about it, possibly sticky. We are on your side!

awarenessadventurer ago

thank you. keep the communication lines running... it moves the focus from MODS and it gives us all a chance at informed consent on even BEING HERE in this venue. I personally am sketched out. But cant seem to stop...

VieBleu ago

There should not have to be a "strategy" and "workaround" for a flipping search bar.