I'd have limited ambitions with it, but I would lift the anon status and deal with the problem everyone sees. The trolling and general unaccountability for the posts made there. Neither is beneficial to Voat. I say that as someone who have very much participated in shitting up that board as a protest.
Outside of a few selected subs like /v/8chan that could have issues with bot posts, I really don't see anon being used much as intended. If someone caught their penis in the zipper and want to talk about it without being tied to their username, it's not really that hard to make a throwaway and make a few slurs to get the 10 points required to make a topic.
A couple of extra thoughts on the matter. Requesting the sub is something that had been on my mind for a while, but with today's events, now seemed like the right time.
This will likely disappoint certain goats, but my intentions isn't to take the sub away from the Q followers. In fact my intentions is to give it to them in a shape where it might actually be useful.
When Assange was arrested not to long ago a few of us had a little bet going on in SBBH over how many topics would be posted about it within a 24 hour time frame. As you can imagine the discussion quickly became about how many of those topics were posted in QRV. I can't be bothered to give you the exact numbers right now, but +5/-5 it was 220'ish on all of Voat in total and around 80 or more than a 3rd posted in QRV. The rest was distributed out in a variety of subs. /v/news, /v/politics, /v/whatever etc..
If you stop and think about that for a second, you should soon realize information is going to get lost if you have 80 topics over the same matter in the same god damn sub. No one is going to click all of them, let alone read the top comment and certainly no one is going to scroll down to see if someone might know more. You can't reasonably call it research if you don't organize your data. /v/voatstatistics suggests this is a habitual problem with /v/QRV.
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C_Corax ago
I'd have limited ambitions with it, but I would lift the anon status and deal with the problem everyone sees. The trolling and general unaccountability for the posts made there. Neither is beneficial to Voat. I say that as someone who have very much participated in shitting up that board as a protest.
Outside of a few selected subs like /v/8chan that could have issues with bot posts, I really don't see anon being used much as intended. If someone caught their penis in the zipper and want to talk about it without being tied to their username, it's not really that hard to make a throwaway and make a few slurs to get the 10 points required to make a topic.
C_Corax ago
A couple of extra thoughts on the matter. Requesting the sub is something that had been on my mind for a while, but with today's events, now seemed like the right time.
This will likely disappoint certain goats, but my intentions isn't to take the sub away from the Q followers. In fact my intentions is to give it to them in a shape where it might actually be useful.
When Assange was arrested not to long ago a few of us had a little bet going on in SBBH over how many topics would be posted about it within a 24 hour time frame. As you can imagine the discussion quickly became about how many of those topics were posted in QRV. I can't be bothered to give you the exact numbers right now, but +5/-5 it was 220'ish on all of Voat in total and around 80 or more than a 3rd posted in QRV. The rest was distributed out in a variety of subs. /v/news, /v/politics, /v/whatever etc..
If you stop and think about that for a second, you should soon realize information is going to get lost if you have 80 topics over the same matter in the same god damn sub. No one is going to click all of them, let alone read the top comment and certainly no one is going to scroll down to see if someone might know more. You can't reasonably call it research if you don't organize your data. /v/voatstatistics suggests this is a habitual problem with /v/QRV.
This is my intention.
Crazy8s ago
Also nobody is giving you the sub u stupid namefag lmao this is why I never leave QRV you people and your literal soap boxes. Hahahahaha.