[–] lordnahte2 ago
Thank god. Reddit became a giant circlejerk because it all was constantly rehashed. I love seeing new content from talented people, not the same content from over a year ago.
[–] SorbusAnglica ago
Exactly, the benefits of running a smaller community is focus and audience. Noone feels comfortable throwing themselves into the bottomless pit of large subreddits only to be ignored. Guaranteed attention - by the smaller and slower nature of Voat right now - means posts should be higher quality. Don't let previous bad habits follow you here from reddit.
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[–] Genghis_Khan [S] ago
I don't think I understand the question. Why would they vanish? Should I just say "fuck it," remove the sub from /v/all and let it be what it is?
Not going to lie, seeing the endless "news" posts that just quote the same archived comment/post from reddit is partially hilarious, partially frightening in terms of the spin of it all, and partially annoying that it is just the same content, with a different logo in the corner. Or all the news reporting on B. Blount leaving, all putting their own opinion, re-editing the re/code article. Then again, when "new light is shed on Victoria Taylor's firing" was just the same u/yishan quotes being published on yet another click bait site, I sighed, i really wanted new light to be shed, if only to justify certain tinfoil with regards to what is going to happen with IAMA on reddit (and I considered IAMA a fucking joke, when Bad Luck Brian was not interesting enough to justify an IAMA, where it didn't jive with everything else they do, will admit to upvoting all the top comments to Snoop Dogg/Lion's AMA back in 2012, and thinks it sad that an author resorted to doing a "secret AMA")
You might want to consider a sticky/real time discussion for tomorrow for spez' talk with the community about which subs have no place on reddit. Because we all want to watch that ship set sail, sink, or just burn in place, providing a nice bonfire to pop the corn. And even if it is smooth sailing with cheering, and fanfair, it will be a story here, along the lines of when the music died / prepare to deal with these "toxic communities" to hit voat.
If only there was a way to have those dumb shitposts just in v/new without getting upvoated like crazy just because of their brevity.
Kinda comes down to one of the main issues with the voting model in general. No idea how that kind of thing can be fixed except really dedicated community members to keeping shit off the front page. But at the same time, there just isnt enough not-shit to populate the front page of any subverse at any given time, so the shit fills the gaps.
[–] nokilli 2 points -1 points 1 point (+1|-2) ago
As per Genghis_Khan:
And here I am letting out some steam.
17 other voaters seemed to think it was a good way to do that, and yet Genghis_Khan deletes the submission.
So we're supposed to hang out and talk about how reddit is going down the tubes on account of censorship, in a subverse that is itself now turning into a cesspool of censorship? Wow, they get just a little bit of power and look at what they become!
[–] Genghis_Khan [S] 2 points 1 point 3 points (+3|-2) ago
Your post was removed because it was off topic. Sorry, man.
[–] nokilli 3 points -2 points 1 point (+1|-3) ago
It clearly wasn't off-topic, and you're continuing to say as much constitutes an abuse of your moderator privilege, which is absolutely tragic given why this subverse even exists!