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[–] Native 0 points 23 points (+23|-0) ago 

You can turn off pinging in anon subs from your settings

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[–] middle_path [S] 3 points 6 points (+9|-3) ago 

Shit, really? How long has this been a feature?

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[–] Native 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago  (edited ago)

no idea. Edit you can also now sticky posts in your subs for x amount of days

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[–] PuttItOut 0 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago 

Anon subs are an example of a solid idea being abused. Just like chat. Just like old mod permission handling. Just like...

It's why we can't have nice things.

I still think they serve a purpose. Kinda.

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[–] middle_path [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Oh yeah, they do serve a purpose. I always thought having the option to post anon in a non-anon sub is nice. And if the sub owner is sick of it getting abused, he can just turn it off.

Now I'm blocking like one anon subverse every few weeks.

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[–] gabara 4 points 1 point (+5|-4) ago 

What if every 10th anon post "randomly" wasn't anon and would reveal to poster?

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[–] andrew_jackson 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

This is stupid, even by your usual standards. Really, really dumb. Planned random security failures?

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[–] TheSeer 2 points 1 point (+3|-2) ago 

Don't know if voat should be taking ANY suggestions from the Forum Slider-in-chief.

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[–] 15768308? 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

And can't be edited or deleted! I'd still use them

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[–] Thisismyvoatusername 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

I think the main use for the anon subs is for cowards with unpopular opinions to voice them. I personally think that’s stupid on Voat since there’s not only no censorship in the system subs, there is a strong ethos against it in other subs. So there is little to fear about voicing unpopular opinions. However, given the restrictions on using the site if your CCP is too low, there could be a legitimate fear, I suppose.

While the anon subs are certainly used for shilling and other silly purposes, I think it would be just as cowardly for Voat to get rid of them as it is for faggots to regular use them. If liberals and/or trolls want to play around on the anon subs, I don’t see why they shouldn’t be allowed to do so. If there really were a way to harass people not participating in the sub, I could see an issue, but as noted by @Native, you can now prevent being pinged if it gets to be too distracting.

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[–] Native 1 point 3 points (+4|-1) ago 

And to echo your comment as ambivalent as I am on Q, keeping that sub Anon serves multiple benefits

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[–] middle_path [S] 2 points 2 points (+4|-2) ago 

That would fix a lot of problems.

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[–] Grindelwo 4 points 1 point (+5|-4) ago  (edited ago)

Strange how sometimes these soap box fag type 'change' posts or crybaby waaaa waaaa i want to change voat posts appear at Christmas time or times when most of voat is going to be doing vacation holiday stuff or trying to spend time with family... if voat is not truly broken then why wreck the current system to try 'fix it' or maybe pretend to fix and instead corrupt and rig it?... if one was being paranoid one might think voat is getting attacked by (((someone))) at certain times when nobody else is around to keep the roaches in check. I support the anon subs and I have lurked here on voat a long time before I signed up, I support a 4chan old school forum type anon site only because you or anyone can post whatever CIA, KGB, commie, fascist, Iraq WMD conspiracy, who killed JFK conspiracy without getting attacked or mocked or ridiculed, some people btw not just in communist countries or the shithole islamist middle east but Western places as close as Sweden, Germany, Canada and even California can see themselves in trouble and even lose work because of their political opinions. Basically whats happening to voat is a lot of shills are exposing themselves, not every White Western Man here is a White Western Man, not every Black is a Black not every Yellow Asia Man is a Yellow Asia Man... people shapeshift on the interwebz, it could be anyone Jew, mohammedan Arab. Also a certain group of people from both India and Vietnam are paid up to literally spam, hijack and attack the voat website. Another problem are probably the older soap box Bernie fag transexuals, these are reddit era fag jew niggers @middle_path who have done their best to subvert voat and make it more reddit like. and because you middle_path are part of the soap dox community and part of soap box open borders I would also have doubts about you.


I welcome everyone to check everyone else carefully, almost everyone has some kind of agenda but generally people come to voat for free speech. It has been noted that soap box ran some kind of spam game and voting farm mafia at voat, there was also an online dispute with the Q Boomers. I think what is generally happening in anon is the voat immune system is attacking itself, which ever shill group wins I guess has to chance to hijack voat but as long as voat's immune system works everything should be ok. I do not blame SBBH for everything I'm sure most are just jokers, losers, stoners however they have done shit here at voat and I also encourage people not to trust the soap box community, they are admitted spammers and shit posters. Anon seems to be fine, it just gets corrupted by nasties and its immune system is attacking itself. I think anons should be kept in check not blocked, and you do know you can block anon posts? You do know this guys?

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[–] middle_path [S] 3 points -1 points (+2|-3) ago 

i want to change voat posts appear at Christmas time or times when most of voat is going to be doing vacation holiday stuff or trying to spend time with family... if one was being paranoid one might think voat is getting attacked by (((someone))) at certain times when nobody else is around to keep the roaches in check.

People like Puttitout? He did make some posts yesterday about changing voat.

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[–] LDIP 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Is 4chan cowardly?

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[–] middle_path [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

No, but 4chan is all anon. So there is no harassment of individual users because there are no user names except for tripfags. They also lack an upvote or downvote system, so it's really all a false equivalency.

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[–] LDIP 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Gotcha

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[–] The_Duke_of_Dabs 2 points 2 points (+4|-2) ago 

Been saying this for the past year or so.

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[–] KillallFaggots 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

They seem be used by srs to organize down vote brigades.

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[–] WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

The ability to speak anonymously is important for free speech by eliminating the ability for others who disagree to retaliate against you if they disagree or if it makes them look bad. This has been shown to be true over and over again throughout history. The cultural impact of 4chan, 8chan, and wikileaks in keeping the focus on truth and exposing the lies and propaganda of the jews, globalists, and msm is the most modern example of this.

If there was some rule that every meme had to have the name and address of the creator in it's exif data then nobody would and every post was marked with the same then nobody would make them because then they would be harassed irl for it. The most damaging thing that people can do is dox someone, which is why even reddit prohibits it. Obviously that's not what you're asking for, I am using that as an example to support the idea that each incremental step away from anon posting has a deleterious effect on free speech.

It's fair to dislike how some people use anon posting. I think that as long as voat remains dedicated to free speech we need to keep it.

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[–] middle_path [S] 2 points -2 points (+0|-2) ago 

I think that's fair, but isn't just signing up with a username and password (no email necessary) pretty anonymous as it is? Not to mention all the alts people make.

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[–] WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yes. I think it is still deleterious to free speech to force people to make anon alts and probably isnt the best for the site either. In practice I think that it would encourage mods to ban users and play username whack-a-mole instead of just enduring the anon posts as an inevitable side effect of valuing free speech above everything else.

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