You guys know the Voat drill when Reddit bans something:
Single file lines!
Voat is too broke to get real servers so we must take turns. We must act civilized and share in an orderly fashion or else it just ends up looking like a Black Friday nightmare around here and no one wants that.
So pick your time slot and stick to it, no cheating. Everyone has a 30 second window to Voat. Go.
Sorry about the downtime and slow responses, it's the best we have in Free Speechland at the moment.
Edit:
I hate receiving donations for a few reasons but here is Voat's BTC address if you feel called to donate: 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k. Please only donate if you have the means.
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LostandFound ago
Old question but by any chance we can support you in some way? Appreciate taking money for running an 'edgy' site has its own complications.
big_fat_dangus ago
As I understand it, this has been an issue for quite awhile. This site needs a convenient way to donate. None of this blockchain bullshit.
wuzizname ago
Pay for a silly ad. Do you see the silly ads in the right?
LostandFound ago
Shops closed you cant buy them no payment processor will touch voat. Putt was kimd enough to post the BTC address though.
FindingTruth ago
How much money does voat need to buy the proper servers and such? I didn't think it was that much. An old Bitcoiner can probably help them out...
LostandFound ago
Very little these days probably 500-1000 per month if even that is what its costing, autists here ported all the code over to a more linix friendly deployment and slashed all the costs about 12 months ago made me weep a little
We dont want to be popular and neither does the site owner tbh I can only imagine operating one of the last bastions of free speech on the net is a fucking nightmare.
FindingTruth ago
Thanks for the info. I wonder if something with tech to last is the solution? https://steemit.com/trending/greatawakening We are going to need something and popularity in regards to freedom is not a bad idea. ;-)
LostandFound ago
Steemit is a good platform, I think until we find a system that is decentralized this is just a game of whack-a-mole really though in the long run. Voats defences are good better than most others but where there is a will to cause disruption there is a way.
My only advice to you is to think for yourself around here many accounts have been bought and sold over the years so try to take users on face value sometimes and dont look at acount age or points. The $hills here are different than what you are used to. I have noticed two groups 1. Advanced higly effecient merchants of subversion and consensus cracking 2. JDIF & shariablue newhires who have not got a hope in achieving anything but get sent here for practice
FindingTruth ago
Thanks for taking the time. Interesting, you have gotten two downvotes already. Must have hit a nerve with your advice. ;-) I see a shill already on Steemit. https://steemit.com/@motherlibertynow At least his Q posts make little sense and though upvoted, have very few comments.
Dark_Shroud ago
Here's Voat's BTC donation address: 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k
l_voated_today ago
I not big on handing away money but I would be interested in paying to run some more advertisements.
HOSS44 ago
Cryptos are cool. Just a suggestion. If you could post the BTC QR code it will make it a lot easier for people with wallets on their phones to donate.
SyriansAreTerrorists ago
It's only edgy to the jews
EndTheFed2 ago
How much is it to run voat monthly?
matthew-- ago
This.
Honey_Pot ago
500 shekels, but for you, I can do 350.
flightgod ago
That's funny.
WeekendBaker ago
Oy vey, I can do it for 250 shekels, just sign here to approve with a 350 shekel signing fee and 10% paper surcharge.
Kekalicious ago
TREE FIDDY!!! Loch Ness Monster, you get around.
dirtbeardo ago
What's treefiddy?
Kekalicious ago
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=9cn7xfBpZ3MHookTube I feel old.
drgrow ago
I got excited, thought Loch Ness monster was buying rounds...
Agrianian_Javelineer ago
Stop
Pickzilla ago
How much for the cup??
Skeeterdo ago
My understanding is the funding for the site was removed?? By credit companies or something?? Someone else can offer more insight.
Pretty sure there's a bitcoin donation but I don't remember how to access it.
Phil_Free ago
Donations -- Voat's bitcoin: 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k
007forGod ago
Sorry about the funding thing...
007forGod ago
Cannot believe their desperation!
Weare3shop ago
why not a gofundme or some shit like that...porn attorneys and traitors get paid that way?
Rubieroo ago
Appears to be a problem with financial outfits like Paypal just seizing whatever monies voat has access to.
When you own all the banks. Payseurs et all have much to answer for.
theNakedNecromancer ago
Back in the day, we had PayPal and a couple of other donation options. The Reddit fags of the time (falsely) reported Woot as a Pedophile-haven for child porn, and PayPal froze all transactions and accounts. Now we only have Bitcoin.
KarlKek ago
If cryptonote was a donate option...
Dark_Shroud ago
Good thing Putt posted the address in an update.
Voat's BTC donation address: 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k
KarlKek ago
CryptoNote: Monero, Aeon, Bytecoin (not Bitcoin), several others... will donate for cardboard signs.
HODL my BTC. All total, 0.00274995.
Elbower_of_Quants ago
Credit card companies are stupid. PuttItOut needs to create a funding source called 'How to Create Great Websites" disconnected from his/her/org/fbi name and put some legit info on it produced by him/her/org/bff/fbi/aliens name and this community. And he has to believe in it as we all do. WE ALL WANT TO CREATE GREAT WEBSITES. I know I do. And, I'm willing to pay for this course up to 150 bucks.
Funding created. I don't need an idea fee for this.
be_angry_and_s1n_not ago
How about a GoFundMe?
AlaricTheFirst ago
How about a good, old fashioned P.O. box? We could send cash or checks. Due to this tech censorship we may have to go back to using 1990’s tech to combat it. Just pay a homeless guy to open the letters though, I don’t want Putt to get a ball of anthrax to the face.
CrustyBeaver52 ago
A standard post office box, or really any mailing address, and a US dollar money order sent in the mail - old tech that works, cashable by almost any bank. Certified checks drawn on major banks work almost as well.
Setting up a bank account can offer direct wire transfer as a third method, but the money order is almost impossible to interrupt.
Good old bullion (silver or gold) is also acceptable for tax free mailing in many locations - but you have to confirm the local rules first. Again, while the price fluctuates, it has the advantage of being convertible to cash nearly everywhere.
The powers that be have no idea how dangerous it is to force sites like Voat to operate in the cash economy. Once the technique is learned it becomes very apparent that banks are no longer needed for free commerce.
Skeeterdo ago
Receiving mail would be something to this nature then
https://i.gifer.com/OvbL.gifGIF
go1dfish ago
The censors at Reddit aren’t content to curate their own experience.
They want to deplatform people; so they attack sites that support free speech through campaigns against advertisers and payment processors.
illSendYouToRehabGoy ago
Reddit is owned by Conde Naste, and one they have a big enough audience, they try to shape them. Kinda like propaganda 101 imo.
AlwaysFeral ago
If Swartz hadn't already necked himself, this is the kind of thing that would've inspired him to do it anyway.
binturner ago
No they just out right deleted several sub reddits. Great Awakening q boards.
konocah6 ago
I don't know where reddit censors is. Isn’t it reddit no censors? Only NSFW
dontdoxxmefaggots ago
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
konocah6 ago
Alright I understand
dontdoxxmefaggots ago
go to any comment thread on reddit and replace the 'r' in 'reddit' in the url with a 'c' for 'ceddit' and behold the censorship
illSendYouToRehabGoy ago
Go to any heavily trafficed sife and comment that Lenin was a jew... See what happens. Its like an autodelete function built into amazon web services or something.
The_Litehaus_Abides ago
I'm now using removeddit (replace reddit in uRL with removeddit). It's great.
Voopin__Voopin ago
One of our own made ceddit
@go1dfish
He also had another one that was the same thing. But I forget the name.
Buy local, guys. Support your hometown goats. :)
go1dfish ago
ceddit/snew is the only project of this sort I’m involved in.
I’m frequently mistaken as the creator of unreddit unedditreddit (this is what I think you’re talking about) and others.
My project is focused entirely on mod removals and is a registered Reddit client that follows all their requirements.
Others restore user deleted content as well in violation of Reddit policy and imo a slightly aggressive act against those who delete their own content.
Unedditreddit took some clear inspiration from snew and sprung up at a time when I was neglecting snew (ssl errors).
Thanks for the shout out
The_Litehaus_Abides ago
I just gave it a try and I like it. The little PacMan while it's loading, the layout of the page -- everything.
I'm going to use ceddit from now on. Thank you!
go1dfish ago
Always glad to find people who appreciate my efforts :) glad you like it.
The_Litehaus_Abides ago
Haha, great! Thank you!
Hmmm ago
I can pay in crypto.
AmaleksHairyAss ago
DO IT FAGGOT
Dark_Shroud ago
Voat does accept Bitcoin.
BTC donation address: 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k
peachblossom ago
yep, best way. Use Verge cryptocurrency. It's super fast, tiny fees and anonymous.
LostandFound ago
I understand theres no way to currently give donation, dont even have an address to post some cash!
HST ago
Yea I don't know if that wallet is still active, but all the payment processing companies (think PayPal) have rejected voat.
Last I heard there was an "angel donor" who put a ton of money into voat. But that was at least a year and a couple months ago.. Right after we almost went bankrupt.
Spud4ever ago
Need to get to work on a way to fix this folks (perhaps by GA folks funding forum, we wouldn't become the ones to get thrown out as fast)!
bernitdown ago
Angel donor you mean the CIA. This place is def a honey pot.
MadBro ago
Said one fly to another.
Maroonsaint ago
That was me
Rainy-Day-Dream ago
rather than paypal themselves they probably received such demands from visa and mastercard and other financial partners
Phantom42 ago
Hmm... Big reach, but perhaps it was the Q team/Friendlies? Like they figured this would happen?
HST ago
The conspiracy that is generally accepted is that it's actually a CIA honeypot. It's just so sweet..
TheTrigger ago
From what I remember, it was something stupid like tens of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoins. Someone linked the wallet's history before, but I can't get to those bookmarks, atm. At the time, I think it was worth over $100,000. Not sure how much it would be now, or how much is even left.
Skeeterdo ago
This is going way back but didn't paypal seize nearly 30k from Atko?
SexMachine ago
It was for the stupidest reason too, because Voat hosts porn.... Reddit does too, so wtf?
Skeeterdo ago
I thought some cunts uploaded CP and informed paypal of it immediately after they uploaded it.
Dirty trick.
Fromthebeginning ago
Pitchfork the circle jerkin platform crushers!
ryry117 ago
I feel like Voat needs to get itself some serious legal protection against that. They surely can't be responsible for something like that, right?
It's not like if someone started a new subreddit and immediately posted cp and reported reddit, reddit would actually suffer for it.
MrPim ago
Correct. It was at the same time that they also did that with the original hosting provider
HST ago
Sounds right. No matter how much it was it was fucked.
Skeeterdo ago
It's been a wild fucking ride on this website, I have a feeling it's going to get crazier.
Rubieroo ago
Q says 297,000 worth of crazy.
Reddit says only 70,000
Sum-of-Nun ago
We do need some fall back plans, just in case.
Vvswiftvv17 ago
Poal is the fallback. Although a few faggots on here try to talk shit about it. If this goes down everyone will be flocking.
Rubieroo ago
And then the last place Q says will be left standing once Twitter and Facebook (and likely Youtube) have forced removal of Q information and followers - https://8ch.net/patriotsfight/catalog.html
sn00tyfr00T ago
Correct. Then Q will run the biggest volunteer crowd sourced open source investigation army on the planet
Fromthebeginning ago
Sever farm no more
Fallout18 ago
Its kind of beautiful when you put it like that
Rubieroo ago
It is, isn't it? I have an awesome picture of Q rolling his eyes at our arguments, and wielding a giant Q-shaped banhammer
gabara ago
What if you had to buy downvotes to spend?
VIP740 ago
Like a dunking booth. Shit, if you set that up right you could sell downvotes to SJWs and they'd empty their pockets funding Voat while thinking they were doing serious damage to us.
gabara ago
I wanna bankrupt Israel and James Alefantis.
Rubieroo ago
Ohmahgosh, that's a hysterical idea.
Shills would have to keep voat's boat afloat!
BUTTHOLE__EMPRESS ago
That is actually a really good fuckin idea
QualityShitposter ago
Doing my part by giving you a downvoat!
gabara ago
You went and used this account to post in GreatAwakening? Lol! Sad. Sad.
QualityShitposter ago
Just for that, I rescind my downvoat and give you an upvoat!
freespeechwarrior ago
Twenty of you mouthbreathers upvoated this fascist shit? Those with the most ((($$$))) to spend control the site?
Selling influence is anti free speech as fuck, but you know that. Fucking shill/bots...
Better to post up a crypto$ bond to start an acct, that gets forfeited and used to fund the system and incentivize randomly chosen mods if the acct spams or does other site abuse BS, like suggest (((money))) should buy influence.
gabara ago
I don't think you understand what Fascism is. I've suggested Capitalism. C-a-p-i-t-a-l-i-s-m.
freespeechwarrior ago
Capitalism is secondary only to communism when it comes to the (((elite's))) most powerful and destructive tools. Humans with a conscience and all animals use gift economy to survive. Get the fuck out of here.
gabara ago
Joe Rogan is NOT a CIA plant. He's a stand up guy and doing the Lords work
go1dfish ago
I fucking love this idea.
@puttitout slogan could be:
Voat: speech is free, but censorship will cost you.
xenoPsychologist ago
that slogan is downright glorious.
freespeechwarrior ago
Thanks for naming the Pro Censorship Jew! @gabara and it's alts are a shart to this site!
gabara ago
Seriously, sometimes it's better to accept human behaviour and simply tax it.. Cocaine is a bad idea but outlawing it lead to Crack. Amphetamine led to Meth, trying to outlaw human nature just leads to more of it.
go1dfish ago
ಠ_ಠ
gabara ago
Isn't that the basic idea behind NotABug? People suck so spread the load arround,.
go1dfish ago
Taxation implies force/coercion.
Contributing to the health of notabug is/will be a totally voluntary, opt in process.
gabara ago
I like to shitpost, but my shitposts are a disguise for highly advanced surrealist absurdist anti-humour on the level of Chuck Barris.
kneo24 ago
You mean v/taxationistheft?
Hcktheplanet ago
With that thinking what happens when we ban liberals? Conservatives finally?
freespeechwarrior ago
Human? or (((Human)))?
Ina_Pickle ago
That's hilarious.
Primus_Pilus ago
I'd be broke because of some of the trollfags here.
gabara ago
Give until it hurts! Give to Kek!
SoSpricyHotDog ago
That's an amazing idea! Lol...
gabara ago
It would bankrupt Israel
freespeechwarrior ago
Let's see. Someone wants more influence on voat, so they work for (((money))), and inherently pay taxes to the occult elite pedos in the process, so they can act as censors on a supposedly free speech site??? This is really what you're advocating? If so @puttitout 's got a snake in the grass!
gabara ago
Hi MYG! https://voat.co/v/ProtectVoat/2660219
freespeechwarrior ago
Wait, don't they print the (((money))) out of thin air?
gabara ago
You really are sad and pathetic. Oh well, it's fun for me.
Ina_Pickle ago
This idea could bankrupt some users.
gabara ago
We'd bankrupt the state of Israel! @Trigglypuff we have to make this happen
Wowbagger ago
The problem isn't a lack of ways to make money but rather the inability to accept money through payment processors. We've basically been blackballed from the most common ways to process digital payment.
sherlock_holmes ago
What if you sold traditional merch (t-shirts, hats) via some established merchant? Even at low volume you could sell a hat for $50 and take in say $25 of donation money after costs and their markup? Package the hat with a keycode that gives a account that enters it a year of "voat gold" that confers some small benefit. Sell a $100 hoodie with a lifetime membership.
The NPR model.
WanderingTaurus ago
Great outside the box thinking
Alopix ago
And how would you send that merchant money?
Through the payment processors who already used their influence to shut Voat and others out of other options.
It would go on for maybe a couple of weeks and then the merchant would get a call from Visa saying "pull this product or you won't be able to process Visa transactions anymore thus cutting off half your potential business"
cantaloupe6 ago
Target gift cards can hold 2k Redeemable at coinstar or cardpool.com or sold on eBay. Crypto may be easier.
Alopix ago
Where would 90% of people have to go to get crypto. What does that place do to accounts it doesn't like. How many extra steps would it take to bypass that. What percentage of potential customers are left after making at least two successive 90% cuts. How badly are you getting raped by default by competitors who walk the politically correct line simply because they can get paid with dollars normally without such barriers or tricks
Absolutely completely stop trying to think of ways to work around the existing system, because to everyone else the existing system is called the economy and being forced out of it because we allowed our enemies near-total control of the financial industry is not acceptable. Their "private businesses" need to burn to the ground
sherlock_holmes ago
I think that situation is less likely, typically payment gateway vendors use language that cites the "risky" nature of donations and sale of digital goods (chargebacks, etc) this side steps that explanation and adds the benefit of running on a established account with a history of good standing.
c__c__j3 ago
It’s interesting Visa would be oppose to someone trying to sell merchandise on this kind of a forum but ok for them to process transactions for hardcore pornsites. This censorship is ridiculous!
Riva ago
If you have an Amazon merch account you can set your prices. This could work for a while.
Alopix ago
Until they arbitrarily declare your merchandise "offensive" and remove it without communication or recourse. https://www.infowars.com/fahrenheit-2018-amazon-begins-banning-controversial-books/
konocah6 ago
Interesting
gabara ago
We're create our own currency, we'll call it CCP.
TangoSierra ago
How about GoFundMe?
yeagit ago
Can we send money to a PayPal email?
Dark_Shroud ago
PayPal shut Voat's account down and stole a lot of money from the site when the killed the account.
konocah6 ago
Paypal probably will ban it. Why not Bitcoin
yeagit ago
I just don't know know much about Bitcoin, I send money to people all the time to just a PayPal email address. I have not jumped on the Bitcoin wagon yet. Thanks for replying back.
Dark_Shroud ago
Open a CoinBase account, its very similar to opening a PayPal account.
To avoid fees use the ACH method to buy BitCoins directly using your bank account.
When everything clears you send the BitCoins to Voat's address.
Voat's BTC donation address: 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k
PsychoDesign ago
hmmm, a referral? No thanks, i'll pass.
ruck_feddit ago
Fees, nigger. Fees.
heygeorge ago
I believe that part of the problem is that Pitts making money/taking money from Voat greatly exposes him to legal issues.
xenoPsychologist ago
mail him cash!
ruck_feddit ago
I second this idea.
xenoPsychologist ago
its so crazy it just might work!
Kageki ago
GoFundMe or maybe a proxy account?
LostandFound ago
Shiit man you could keep the site running solo in that case. Gabara takes one for the team, nice
TheBookWasBetter ago
I wonder where @expertshitposter has been. I haven't heard from him since I blocked him a few months ago.
ExpertShitposter ago
what are you some kind of a fag?
xenoPsychologist ago
i dont think he can hear you.
ExpertShitposter ago
I'm making fun of him for other people to see. Plus, he could be lying. Probably is.
xenoPsychologist ago
full of surprises, aint ya?
i was expecting you to type the same thing, except louder; but you didnt. instead, you gave a sensible explanation.
ExpertShitposter ago
Well...i haven't had any poison today. Yet.
TheBuddha ago
'Snot too late!
lord_nougat ago
I saw him earlier, making a weirdly insightful post.
6double5321 ago
There used to be a rule about total upvoats controlling number of downvoats, but i get confused sometimes.
ExpertShitposter ago
Its still in place, and its 1:1 ratio.
Ingy2012 ago
I actually really like this idea.
kneo24 ago
How much per downvoat?
IronFan ago
5 DV's = $1 USD- I'd do it.
Rubieroo ago
Depends - how much do you hate shills? Because they're the ones that'd be paying it for the most part
Some-random-chick ago
Asking the right questions.
jewlie ago
About tree fiddy.
gabara ago
Five. Dollars.
kneo24 ago
I'd have to take out a loan.
mrnicegoy ago
imagine pitching that to your local bank. "So what do you need $10,000 for?"...."I want to call people nigger on the internet."
xenoPsychologist ago
im sold.
White_Collar_Crimnal ago
That was worth one upvote! My nigga!
voltronsdicks ago
lol so fucking good
cthulian_axioms ago
Better: "I need to call people 'nigger' on the internet."