Voat is Being Vote Manipulated By Bots for money SaneGoatiSwear bought votes and turned my points from 300 to -6 (whatever)

submitted ago by UchihaMadara

I don't really care about the points as only an autist of the nth tier would be pathetic enough to do something like that, but this is a serious flaw of Voat.

If you look at my recent history, you will find every single post downvoted by about 8-12 points compared to where it was originally a few hours before making my CP plummet from 300 to -6 (so I'm now restricted from any voting and I'm being told I'm a "new user" even though I've been here for 1.5 years). I'm 100% certain it was/is "SaneGoatiSwear" because he's stated on the Voat chat he can buy up/downvotes to manipulate people's accounts and submissions (he even linked to a page that showed where you can buy them), and over the last couple days he stated he was going to target me.

Voat needs to have further securities in place to prevent vote manipulation as this is a huge exploitation esp. on a platform that runs on free speech.

edit: I can't even reply or upvote to any the comments as I'm getting an error message: "You have reached your daily comment quota. Your current quota is 10 comment(s) per 24 hours."

I can't even message the admins or anyone lol.

This is a huge exploitation if a few "super"users can target users, and effectively censor them.

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sgx191316 ago

He reported a lot of shills

Well, yeah, if by "reported a lot of shills" you mean "accuses everyone who disagrees with him of being a criminal shill with no evidence whatsoever", then yeah, he does that a lot.

noticed a lot of brigading happening around VOAT

He's certainly said he's being brigaded, though he has provided no evidence of it. It is funny how when he gets downvotes, it's because other people are attacking him, and when he gets upvotes, it's also because other people are attacking him.

while he has people stalking him and insulting him wherever he goes

Define "stalking", as it applies to a public message board? As for insulting him, he's systematically attacked everyone who he's ever disagreed with, calling them criminal shills and nigger faggots, is it surprising people sometimes say the same sorts of things back to him?

IMO this is a coordinated attack on his character

Coordinated by whom? Presumably you have evidence of this coordination? And saying "This guy is a nigger faggot shill" is an attack on character, saying "This guy is using upvoting bots" has nothing to do with his character.

SaneGoatiSwear ago

shill shilling

sgx191316 ago

Yes, everyone who doesn't 100% agree with you is a shill. Thanks for proving my first point, though.