Yesterday, after this debacle, I added a rule about Comment Abuse for the sake of clarity.
The Voat User Agreement requires us all to Respect Other Users, both their privacy and their freedom of speech. People who work hard on their research submissions shouldn't have their work overshadowed, their free speech suppressed, and the discussion of their submission derailed by off-topic rants, flame wars or copypasta spam in the Comment section. It's not right.
This has actually been in place for several months under Voat's Sitewide Rules. If you check the banlog, you will see that Putt added the Voat User Agreement to the rule violations list moderators can cite some time ago, and Donkey and his many alts were banned for comment abuse under that -- at the request of multiple users -- after he impersonated another user to discredit her research. TrustTheTruth was also banned for comment abuse under the Voat UA spam clause because he spammed the same longwinded, evidence-free rants over and over again, regardless of the submission topic.
It's now spelled out in our sidebar. Thoughts?
Edit: Link to banlog fixed.
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NOMOCHOMO ago
I suspect an attempt at trickle in upvoats will occur to try counter the -16 votes received in the first 2 days.
Currently @ 5 upvoats.
NOMOCHOMO ago
20 down, 8 up
NOMOCHOMO ago
21 down, 10 up
still not a single comment in support of the new rule.
NOMOCHOMO ago
22 down 12 up
NOMOCHOMO ago
22 down 13 up
3 users have commented in favor of the rule
NOMOCHOMO ago
22 down 15 up....like clockwork
NOMOCHOMO ago
10 days later 27 down 18 up
*as long as we are login only, it is worthwhile to track vote counts as they display to individual users
Vindicator ago
Interestingly, almost everyone who has bothered to comment on this post is either not a pizzagate contributor or has a past history of undermining the community. The downvotes are not surprising. As of now, it's not looking like our active users are against this rule.
I've learned a lot about you from making this sticky.
"I suspect" an "attempt" at "trickle in upvoats" will occur <<< You want to paint all users who notice it and support going forward as somehow illegitimate or nefarious. More disrespect for your fellow pizzagate researchers, eh? Can't say I'm sad that you are too arrogant and self-righteous to get yourself unbanned.
You also don't realize that unlike on Reddit, where "Karma" is king, submission points don't matter for squat here. They literally count for nothing. They get you more eyeballs on v/all. That's it. As this is an internal matter to this subverse, having this in the negatives is a good thing.
If pizzagaters think this is a bad idea, they will comment and let me know. And they know I will listen to them.
ESOTERICshade ago
Well no shit sherlock. Your fearless leader @crensch, and you and your Qanon bullshit, ran off most of our regular contributors.
Some of us simply refuse to take bullshit from power mods. How does that suit you?
NOMOCHOMO ago
you have 6 upvoats. Who has commented in support of it? I see no vocal support
....or are "multiple users" PMing you?......
Piscina ago
They change the goalposts as they see fit. There is neither rhyme nor reason to their 'rules'. They are drunk on what little power in life they have. Notice that you're responding to someone who labels anyone who doesn't agree with him as 'undermining the community', which is laughable.