So we ban any paid trump staffers as well?

Though we need to be aware of the slippery slope, moderation does serve a useful goal of keeping the signal to noise ratio high. Shills/SJWs/racists/trolls are all welcome, but they're welcome to their own sections where they can shill and whine and insult among themselves. Allowing everyone everywhere creates chaos and is a form of censorship in and of itself as meaningful discussion becomes impossible.

What if I told you the shills were the ones clamoring for the censoring...

Just downvoat and berate with facts. Easy peasy. The more discussion the better, ya?

You are paranoid as fuck.

But muh echo chamber is under attack!!1

The fact they want to censor opinions and view any pro-Clinton opinion as a paid shill is ridiculous. They are just as bad as the users on reddit but from the flipside. I am a liberal and I'm on voat because I hate censorship. I hope voat stays that way.

Very true,

I don't get your link. They haven't deleted a comment for 3 months? Besides the Donald is a hugbox sub and have in their sidebar that they delete anti trump comments. They are hardly representing the typical approach on Voat

Nvm, I see what you are saying. As as the current rumblings stay rumblings then it's fine. There's barely any way to prove who is a paid shill anyway so any ban would be bullshit.

I will give my opinion on this matter:
I believe voat's system already has fairly adequate tools for combating shills, such as down-voting, and not being able to post much with low CCP, and being able to check the age of an account to see if it was just created a few minutes or hours ago..
Although the "up-vote old content" LOOPHOLE NEEDS TO BE FIXED.. Shills can create alternate accounts and then up-vote their other accounts to give them lots of CCP.. That really needs to have limits just like down-voting old posts does..

When moderators start making all the decisions of what should be seen or not seen, you start entering in to a dangerous territory.. Whether you call it "deleting" or "censoring" is just semantics.. It is information that 1 person (a mod) decides should be seen or not, instead of the many users deciding (via voting).. Thankfully though, voat has an other tool that reddit never had, which is being able to see the deleted comments, so that if a mod ever really does start over-censoring excessively, the users will still be able to check and see exactly what is being deleted and can call the mods out for it..

Actually, I wouldn't mind if the CCP system was altered a bit to make it more difficult to post a lot of crap right after you have just created a new account.. I think it would be beneficial for the voat community as a whole if new users were encouraged to lurk for a bit (maybe few days or weeks) before being able to post too much.. They could still post a few things at first, but not tons.. And as their CCP goes up they would be able to post more stuff..

Also, notice that 4chan /pol/ doesn't really have any mods removing shill posts, and doesn't even have a voting system, yet the shills on there always get spotted very quickly and get made fun of because people aren't stupid and many times can detect when some one has a weak argument that they are trying to push..

One more thing I would like to add: I also think voat mods should be able to create their own subverses that delete/censor shills' posts IF they put a warning on the right side stating some disclaimer like "This is a huge Trump echo-chamber and CTR posts WILL be deleted, so if you can't handle that BTFO", because I think people should still have the option to have a lot of control over their own personal subverse that they created if they want to..
AND, one more tool voat has that reddit doesn't is the "whatever" subverse, where nothing is censored.. So it isn't like any one can be completely locked out of every major sub on the whole site (unlike reddit)..

Besides it being wrong to delete them. Take it as an opportunity to learn the talking points they have been fed. And then out them as shills.

We are the censors, as it should be.

Browse /v/all/new and take out the trash, everyone!

WTF is CTR? Cathode Tube-Ray?

You're absolutely right.

Don't they just get downvoat and ridiculed anyways?

I've noticed a disturbing trend with CRT shills: they drop their pants and make hundreds of shitposts without making a single comment, so their CCP remains at zero and they don't get constrained.

What's the point of a public free speech discussion forum if users aren't even willing to discuss anything?

These people are nothing but spammers making blatant Hillary advertisements and harming Voat by wasting everyone's time and resources.

OP is right we must protect the shill or who knows maybe they will come for the joos next.

God forbid we use that little downward-facing arrow to the right of comments, right?

You will only get censored if you are against homos.

The shills don't matter anyway. They don't win arguments or anything else.

blatent adverstisement

They're getting paid millions of dollars to promote Hillary. It doesn't get more blatant.