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.
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WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI ago
I'm sure it will eventually, but what's the rush?
Armpit_and_Ass ago
The rush is that in barely a month, voat went from a decent right-wing- & nationalist-themed content aggregator, discussion & sharing platform to a civnat/qtard/muh-based-negroes shit-tier cesspool for sharing quips, one-liners, and blurry, grainy, resized, cropped, and watermarked trash that people find on faceberg/twitter.
There's no valid reason that these so-called outside attacks are being dealt with by closing account registration or needing to log in to view the site. That's just not how DDOS attacks work.
One thing that I find telling is how the site hangs all the time. Write a post, click submit, and it just sits there forever. Click again, and your post sometimes goes through, sometimes not. Click again and again and it eventually will. But then go look at your own post history and there two or five or six posts that were made. Why did it hang?
8chan started acting the same way 'round the clock (i.e., regardless of actual time-correlated demand on site infrastructure) after their so-called "hack" in April '18, and stayed that way until the day it went down.
Nosfewratsjews ago
You're just now realizing Voat is a CIA honeypot? They replaced Putt long ago.