Here's a list of our mods atm and their background involvement and accountability/roles
@kingkongwaswrong - creator of sub, first owner, current go-to-mod for users to ping
@crensch - redundancy owner, mod of /v/protectvoat. Trying to fill the gaps and enforce the rules while we build up our mod team
@VictorSteinerDavion - mostly hands off redundancy owner.
@knowthyself - flair organiser, rule enforcer
@millenial_falcon - shill watch, rule enforcer. General @kevdude aggravator.
@numbchuck, @phobos_mothership - shill watch, rule enforcers
@melitica - investigative organization, flairs, potential megathread creation
@justiceforever - morale officer. Not a mod per se, but posts morale boosting stuff on Morale Monday. Important.
@heygeorge - css and design guy
@kevdude - not a mod per se, but is an objective third party making sure we avoid censorship and narrative hijacking. important. lead mod at /v/protectvoat
These will change, who knows. The more redundancy & extra hands we have, the more people can start to think of creative ways to help the community and organise intelligent things eg. maybe an effort to evaluate and set up voat alternatives in the case of a shut down, or writing weekly digests of info or something. who knows.
So far everyone's been great and I want to thank you all. Some of you already know I'm going to be phasing out my efforts soon, and I think we have a really nice team to take over. So be kind to each other & keep up the amazing work.
I'll be posting a sticky in the main sub soon letting everyone know about me leaving, about you guys & to ping you instead, and a link to this sub so people can see our moderation discussions + leave comments
#on owners & redundancy
We now have 3 owners from very different backgrounds. @kingkongwaswrong is a new account, @crensch is a known figure, mod of /v/protectvoat and fierce anti-censorship person, and @victorsteinerdavion is a long term member of the voat community with lots of lucid comments.
Three points of contact should mean the canary is any kind of moderator purging, esp mod purging. If there is any strange, unaccounted for behaviour, the rest of the group can do something about it, or say something.
Nothing is totally safe or secure, but hopefully this structure means there's no single point of failure.
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Crensch ago
Also, for all the mods here now, and in the future:
You're all here because you see that this is a worthwhile cause to help facilitate. That's awesome, and you're awesome for volunteering to help.
You, and everyone on this list are very likely to be attacked from every side. Modding on Voat is not a glamorous job. It's not a privilege in any sense of the word. It is hard work - a constant tightrope walk.
I'll do what I can to help smooth things over should there be some upheaval targeting you, so please, please ping me there and I'll address it asap. Familiarize yourself with @kevdude and what he thinks about how things need to be, because he rarely makes mistakes about where the line should be. No matter how much it seems like he's attacking you, he's this sub's best friend, and one of the main reasons we can operate here relatively (seriously) unmolested by older PV goats with downvotes and pitchforks aplenty.
Don't take the attacks from older Voaters personally. We don't mince words, and it may sound unreasonably harsh to your (relatively) virgin sensibilities. Voaters have ground to protect, and if old goats see what we're doing as a threat to that, they're likely to attack us whether their position seems reasonable to us or not.
This will likely be the closest thing to a forum war from a defensive and seemingly unwinnable position you ever encounter. Every one of us is in danger of being destroyed. My 10k ccp won't save me if the natives get restless, it'll just take a day or two more to force this username into the negatives. Our position reminds me somewhat of this. (Just the first 10s)
The only payoff we're likely to get is when these fucking pedo elites are behind bars, and we can look back and see that some of those developments that helped put them there were brought to light thanks to our hard work. I, for one, don't think I could ever say the prize isn't worth the Cracker Jacks.