I've added a new rule to reflect the Voat User Agreement. Please share your thoughts. (pizzagatemods)

submitted ago by Vindicator

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

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3289546/20563449

Shall the good news about Donkey getting purged be made public yet (like in a sticky post)?

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3289546/20566542

I've tried to keep the focus on research and drama to a minimum. This sticky is obnoxious enough, IMO. Do you see an upside?

@shewhomustbeobeyed @heygeorge @kevdude More publically referenced examples of Secret Moderation w/out general-user input/discussion

I just found this.... I was banned for a "Rule 1: relevancy" violation for my comment in @darkknight111 's post.

A few days earlier, darkknight was talking with Mods about a user being "purged"

Darkknight has still not commented on my ban.

shewhomustbeobeyed ago

I saw those comments shortly after they were made, nomo. What's the problem? Donqi was banned for using an alt that imitated a PG researcher. It wasn't hidden that I'm aware of.

dk111 has always hated donqi. Common knowledge.

I wish you weren't banned, things could be so much better if you could get back to researching. But now you're just being an ass.

NOMOCHOMO ago

I saw those comments shortly after they were made, nomo

The comments are from 19 days ago. The Ban was 2 months ago. When was it announced publically?

It shows a pattern of Mods taking action, and justifying it after the fact. Rather than presenting a case to the community first.

Donqi was banned for using an alt that imitated a PG researcher. It wasn't hidden that I'm aware of.

"User Agreement" violation.... I wasn't fooled by the alt. I read Ender's Game. It's kiddy level hacking...

But once again, Mods have to protect users from using their own discernment.

Sadly, the longer I'm banned, the more I doubt the moderator intentions.

I've been banned for 2 weeks, and have desperately been trying to get it reversed. /ass

shewhomustbeobeyed ago

The comments are from 19 days ago. The Ban was 2 months ago. When was it announced publically?

As far as I know there has never been a policy to announce bans.

I understood dk111s comment to mean that he wanted to make a submission alerting everyone to his victory over donqi. Then have @Vindicator sticky it.

Did I mention that @darkknight111 REALLY HATES @Don-Keyhote.

I wasn't fooled by the alt. I read Ender's Game. It's kiddy level hacking...

No one is fooled by Donqi's alts. Although, we did have a cancer mod here who loved making alts that abused donqi, and other PG users. She's supposedly gone now.

 

@heygeorge - in case you're bored.

darkknight111 ago

The reason I hate Donkey...easy.

He’s an evil sub human sand nigger pedo psychopath who advocates rape, believes sex with 12 year olds is a okay, regularly sends death threats to voaters (worded in such a way as to evade the prerequistes for a crack down).

Overall disgrace to men everywhere.

If you don’t stomp down on people like that, they just get bolder (donkey is proof in point) as they believe they can do whatever they want.

NOMOCHOMO ago

hate + stomp down

I don't disagree. But you ought to "stomp" by responding or downvoting

....not by suppressing everyone's speech by adding a new comment standard....

Free Speech prioritizes rights over feelings.

Stomp down with your own free speech, not rule changes.

darkknight111 ago

Just put in my formal stance on this mess.

When I refer to “nuclear keys”, its a reference to a submarines policy on how the nukes get fired.

Both keys have to be active for the mechanism to work. Both keys are carried by different people. The orders have to come directly from the president.

NOMOCHOMO ago

thanks for clarifying, I replied to your main comment

shewhomustbeobeyed ago

I'm already lost. something-something-nuclearkeys (yes i know sub policy)

It's all anti free speech to me. VeryUnAmerican.

I'm gonna be busy til after 9pm. Ping me if there is something you'd like me to read tonight.

Please try not to be a complete idiot today. You men and your pissing contests are making the backyard stink to high heavens.