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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twistedmac11 ago
I'm sorry I'm late to the party. This is fucking hilarious.
Fucking lol. Such hypocrisy. It's no wonder v/pizzagate is dead. I can't figure out, though, if you're being deliberately obtuse or if you're a willing accomplice.
NOMOCHOMO ago
aren't they the same thing?
twistedmac11 ago
Yeah, I messed my wording up a bit on that one. What I meant was is he ignorant, or is he aware of the hypocrisy and just trying to play it off?
I agree that a few "disruptors" (whether they're shills or just trolls) messed things up and that mods have to be on guard. However they have to realize that bringing the hammer down as hard as they have doesn't do v/pizzagate any favors either. It runs people off. If the goal is to spread knowledge/wake people up, what good does it do to push people away? This sub has lost a lot of traffic. I'm sure partially because putt has closed voat off, but even prior to that it had slowed down a lot, and I'm pretty sure behavior of the mods has contributed to that. I know I lost some interest in coming here when I first saw crensch ranting at another pizzagate user and saying this sub wouldn't be here without him, etc.
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NOMOCHOMO ago
thatsabingo.