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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TheBuddha ago

Those SBBH people are terrible! They should all be banned!

NeedleStack ago

Ha ha.

BaneGhostiSwear ago

dear needle, it's sanegoatiswear. don't believe me? PM me on my main, and i'll respond.

i FUCKING GODDAMN MOTHER FUCKING TOLD YOUR DUMB KNITTING ASS THAT THESE MOTHER FUCKERS TOOK OVER THE SITE.

sbbh, better known as r/ shitredditsays better known as the paid criminal militant SJW shills that took over and ruined reddit also took over and ruined VOAT

i fucking warned you, and you were too closed-minded and/or entrenched in the site (for all the work you put into it and the community) and could not bring yourself to "get into the SBBH drama."

well it wasn't drama, it was a hostile criminal takeover of our site, the censoring of our site, the harassing defaming and running off of the majority of good users on the site, takeover of subs, banning of hundreds of upvoaters, the allowance for the shills to endlessly downvoat brigade and put into censorship restrictions any user they wanted

lol at one point the paid organized shills under @kevdude and @puttitout made a CHAT BOT using my comments so they could "practice shilling against me"

i'm glad you finally woke the fuck up.

oh and @thebuddha paid shills represent non-living entities, and thus do not enjoy free speech rights. paid shills like @puttitout @kevdude @crensch ought absolutely be perma-banned, and have all criminal activities forwarded to the FBI.

which is why there's no hope for voat.

which is why i'm building a replacement voat - - and it's almost done :) :) :)

NotHereForPizza ago

@womb_raider

Seconded.

Womb_Raider ago

Already saw it, thanks for bringing it to my attention though.

Sane says free speech should be maintained at all costs, but then he also says stuff like this:

paid shills like @puttitout @kevdude @crensch ought absolutely be perma-banned, and have all criminal activities forwarded to the FBI.

It's very hard to take a man like this seriously. I have told him this, yet he does not listen. Makes me wonder if he's part of the group he pretends to oppose. I dunno.

NotHereForPizza ago

You have to learn how to use your friends, before you learn to use your enemies.

Before that, you have to know who your friends are, and who your enemies aren't.

But, I actually saw your comment first, I just didn't want to confuse sanegoat

Womb_Raider ago

OH. I see what you were replying to now.