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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Fambida ago
This rule is fucking retarded and I can only assume you are acting in bad faith. Did the lessons of Reddit teach you nothing?
NOMOCHOMO ago
He's still trying to justify Crensch going powermod and banning me for repeatedly asking him a question, despite his evasive counterQ's
Angelis_Solaris ago
Well it would be useful for NOMOCHOMO to reply on one of his comment chains which is being wrecked by a New Age priest claiming that Wilhelm Reich was not advocating pedophilia when he clearly was. What does NOMO need to do to be unbanned?
NOMOCHOMO ago
I can't comment (until a Mod grows a pair and unbans me), but plz ping me to the Reich post/chain
NOMOCHOMO ago
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3441256/20757235
@ordotempliinternetis. happy to help search, but I can't comment in pizzagate until I am unbanned.
https://voat.co/v/pizzagatemods/3433526
If you advocate for it. being reversed, I'd appreciate it.
I'll direct message you in the meantime if I find anything relevant.