Don't let this slip into the memory hole Goats, it's been two months since the Voat investment deal and we still have no details. (whatever)

submitted ago by DrSelfAppointed

EDIT. Got an answer. Move along people, nothing to see here.

There were no terms associated with this deal other than to help Voat succeed and to offer some resources to this end.

-Putt

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For anyone out of the loop, two months ago Putt announced a secret investor for voat with vague details. Which you can read here https://voat.co/v/announcements/2934082

What we were told:

  • Voat has gotten a budget for staff and a partial budget for operation

  • Putt remains CEO

  • The investor wishes to be kept secret (I feel like I would want the same in their shoes)

  • And the Details of the deal have been kept off the table “at least until Voat gets acclimated to the partnership and the newness fades.”

The only other thing I have heard from Putt that adds any good information is that both he and Atko retain majority ownership/control. While that’s a good thing, we still have no idea what they agreed too to secure this funding.

My argument is, while the anonymity of the investor is understandable secret, the only reason to continue to withhold the details of the agreement would be if there were some kind of malicious, foul, or some other stipulation that would be disagreeable to the community.

I have yet to see a single good reason to keep that information secret; and doing so completely undermines any notion of transparency. It seems the only way we will ever get that information is if the goats make a big stink. Which is why I am here to remind you all, again.

Unless @puttitout judges us as being acclimated enough to be told.

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NotHereForPizza ago

Do you know anything about Putt? Any personal details?

Why would some other entity owning it make any kind of difference?

A simple question now arises, after that line of thinking: why did Putt inform us that another partner was now being added?

Why does it matter, without us ever having known who Putt is, if another partner is dealt in?

What does Putt adding a partner tell you? What other major shift occurred on the site right around the time Putt made the announcement?

PuttsMum ago

Just so you know, some of us know who Putt is IRL, as in first and last names. He told us about 4 years ago and it checked out. It's still him running the place.

NotHereForPizza ago

I actually have heard that. How have you proven that Putt is still the same person running things, though?

Did you catch the other comment I made in this thread outside of the chain I started?

PuttsMum ago

I chat with him on Skype under his real name from time to time. It's still him :)

I didn't catch the other comment, would you happen to have a link, I'm on mobile and it's a pain going through chains.

NotHereForPizza ago

Yeah, that's what I mean, though, we're still just taking someone else's word for it, which just passes off the potential blame or credit to someone else. That still doesn't give everyone else, currently, a way to verify for themselves. Again, for all we know, you could just be whoever "putt" is now.

https://voat.co/v/whatever/3060750/17017633

PuttsMum ago

I take your point.

Do you remember Atko, the founder of Voat?

NotHereForPizza ago

Didn't he check back in a few months ago, or so?

PuttsMum ago

Yes. I just thought that as an act of good faith I'd give you his (atkos) real name: Atif Colo. Google can fill you in.

Just for a tease, putts initials are JC, Google will help :)

NotHereForPizza ago

I'm good.

I don't want to know anything about either of them and you've no right to dox anyone without their consent. You seem to be entirely missing the point of my posts.

PuttsMum ago

It's public information that they both posted here on voat, not doxxing.

My original account was called Mick, I have been here 4 years and 2 days. Putts is my friend and still runs this place. I can rest knowing it's him, even if others can't, was just trying to allay your understandable fears a little.

NotHereForPizza ago

Well, I must not have understood that atko revealed his full name to everyone a few years back. I remember you saying that about putt, but not atko.

again:

You seem to be entirely missing the point of my posts.

PuttsMum ago

As atko and putts would say, nobody is forced to stay on voat if they don't like it, or how it's run. That's how I see things too.