Goats use Voat for different purposes; some of us use it as a sort of alternative publishing platform for our research (e.g. myself, maybe the HRC guy, some of the Pizzagaters and some of the QRV guys). If this research isn't spiderable, and otherwise isn't easily accessible (e.g. requires login, but new accounts are closed), then many of us research posters have lost a lot of what we used this platform for. Since there is no other platform for us online right now, Voat has truly turned into a containment board.

The concept of a replacement level applies to website userbases as well as populations. Online, you can't make families with other accounts and reproduce new accounts. Unironically (yet still ironically), replacement migration is the only way that a web population can grow.

Thus my argument: Goats leave all of the time and are replaced with new goats. This can't happen now, and, unless it changes, Voat will die.