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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Vindicator ago
No one removed any Comments, for speech content or any other reason. Or proposed removing Comments. Nice try, though.
So...first you invent a big ruleset for the sub on Voat dedicated to documenting elite corruption, then you support disinfo pushers who use the Comment section to get around those rules, and try to undermine efforts to prevent that by making up lies about it.
@Crensch is so right about you.
You mean the DDoS this sub brought the site under? I'd say I was sorry about that...except I'm not. Free speech is pointless unless you actually use it to change things for the better.
NOMOCHOMO ago
@vindicator your new post is Disinfo. It wasn't an AOC supporter
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3455809
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrMatthewSweet/status/1180000548839415808
This was a LaRouchePAC Stunt.
I'm literally doing your job for you, I'm an asshole and an asset.
darkknight111 ago
While this is true upon further digging, that incident has already bore fruit in our favor. Think “Long Game”.
https://mobile.twitter.com/AOC/status/1179926199738490880
By defending this person and doing NOTHING to publically condemn or admonish talk of using cannibalism that happened right in front of her, she exposed herself. Said clip going viral on the internet.
AOC likely agrees with this woman’s “eat the babies statement” and is a possible pedovore.
Talk of the left and elites endorsing cannibalism is trending thanks to this.. This incident is a VERY bad event for the pedo elites. This also torpedoes the “muh climate change” narrative as insane delusions.
NOMOCHOMO ago
Long Game Propoganda.
Staged events ought to be noted as such if we are "journalists" putting together "unbiased" content.