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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Phobos_Mothership ago
Wanted to ask @melitica if it would be possible for us to get a few more specific flairs?
Just a few new flair ideas: Misleading (for piosts that don't blatantly break rule 2 or rule 3 and who are relevant but misleading) No sources posted suspected shill (ONLY for obvious shillposts) link relevant but disturbing (for our viewers with delicate eye-sensibilities)
VieBleu ago
Im a civilian here, but I think the most dangerous thing that is happening needs to be brought up. Promoting violence of any kind must be grounds for immediate something - up to you- but should be not tolerated. This group faces enough problems without shills and retards posting things about vigilante justice which might make it appear to outsiders or newcomers that everything they heard about angry racist gun toting crazies is true.
I ask that you consider this a priority in some meeting. thx!
VictorSteinerDavion ago
Violence is the last resort of a failed argument.
If you propose a wording for a rule to deal with this, the mod team can discuss it's inclusion.
My stance is that any call for violence is counter to the goals and should be derided whenever it is found.
We are all civilians here, without participation from the community, by the community, for the community; there is no community
Take part, suggest, argue - it is your voat given right to participate
VieBleu ago
Ok. thank you. I propose a rule that submissions or comments that promote vigilante justice and or violence are not tolerated. Every person using this forum is asked to engage with the originator if they run across this kind of content and ask them to modify it or take it down. If they do not do so upon being asked, or are not online, their content will be removed.
When asking someone to tone down or take down violent content, the suggested approach is to say something like "Content that promotes violence or vigilante justice is not tolerated among the pizzagate community. Please take that type of free speech to another venue."