Fair warning to my fellow goats - Account anonymity in anon subs is a fallacy and what you write can and will get used against you. (whatever)

submitted ago by NeedleStack

This post is an advisory to users that your username is connected to whatever you write in anon subs.

What you write can be seen by one or more devs who’ve been given that special access. But what you may not know is that they can and do use it against you as they’ve done with me in the past and as recently as yesterday. And one or more of those users who have this ability are part of SBBH.

Some history: One of the SBBH members had a hissy fit with me over a year ago and is probably the same user who would “miraculously” happen to know it was me when I would write certain things in anon subs in the past. I’d write something and they’d make a snarky remark revealing that they knew were talking to my account. It wasn’t a huge deal but it made me aware that my username could be seen by one or more users with this special access.

Back to present day: I’d never bothered to get caught up in SBBH drama until about a week ago when I started needling them in anon subs with a comment here or there regarding their questionable activities on voat.

It didn’t take long for one of them to take the bait and clearly refer to me when making this remark about my recent comments:

http://archive.is/eBPYZ

My account is exactly 2.7 years old. Whoever wrote that comment was a fool; for so obviously ‘giving away’ that they could see it was me writing those comments (showing their hand), and to give such a sensitive shit over what I wrote (notice it took anti-SBBH comments for them to get fresh and reveal themselves).

Let this story be a warning to any of you that this ‘special access’ to see which user is writing “anon” comments creates an unfair advantage and in the wrong hands can be used against you. At the same time, these privileged few are able to enjoy the ability to hide in anon subs themselves.

@PuttItOut, users will never be free to “have their say” in anon subs until everyone but you is stripped of the ability to see who’s posting what in so-called anon subs.

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Edit: Hey, cool! My post got a "Speculation" flair. Perhaps the first in voat's history in v/Whatever.

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CANCEL-CAT-FACTS ago

Voat is controlled opposition and users who present sourced facts are silenced through peer censorship.

NotHereForPizza ago

It's more like a containment zone.

CANCEL-CAT-FACTS ago

Well that is not working out very well because here on voat I learned more about what is going on out there in the world, what supposed truths need to be questioned and why freedom of speech and expression is so important than I ever learned anywhere else.

And so, they can censor and delete free-thinking people off other websites for speaking their mind, and these banished folks come to voat -- but the truth cannot be contained.

NotHereForPizza ago

If this is all you've been exposed to, you have but a fraction.

Places outside of containment don't function like this place does.

If you only knew how bad things really are.

ExpertShitposter ago

Cant tell if presenting cat facts of canceling them...

CANCEL-CAT-FACTS ago

Schrödinger's cat facts.

ExpertShitposter ago

Joseph Goebbels cat adventure diary.

tendiesonfloor ago

You should only be allowed to post stuff that has been approved by CNN/Facebook/WaPo/Snopes, otherwise the normies that don't come here won't trust us! Oy Vey!

Kill yourself.

NeedleStack ago

Ha ha, I don't think voat is controlled opposition. Unless my definition is not the same as yours? I'd love to hear what you mean if that's ok.

MadWorld ago

He is not wrong though. There is a small group of users, with lots of alt accounts, who are here to manipulate votes and control narratives. A good place to start is /v/realProtectVoat's sidebar and its members. But let's just move forward with the contents and not be dragged into their endless loops.

gabara ago

Oh Freshmeat!

MadWorld ago

Let's not talk about that psycho.

lord_nougat ago

That's an insult to psychos.

MadWorld ago

LOLs

gabara ago

Then why do you listen to him? That's the one that says all that shit about us. Because @Expertshitposter tricked @freshmeat by "confessing" a whole bunch of stuff that he made up. "Criminal Shill" was just a nod to the game ES4:Oblivion. Freshmeat is NOT smart. Or sane. It's all just a joke. But it lead to rPV. Which is the Koolaid you're drinking.

CANCEL-CAT-FACTS ago

Anon subverses should be anon all the way.