[–] Genghis_Khan 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Can you quickly break down what this thing you linked to is?
[–] honorkell [S] 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
Users or mods on reddit (SRS?) create a tool to automatically log where users on reddit post. This mass tagging list then can be given to any mod of any subreddit who wants it. Made a non--pc comment or thought a year ago? You're tagged forever. Now whoever has this list (mods) can choose to silence you no matter what the content of your latest post/idea is. You've been ghettoized. Combine that with this allegedly admin-approved system of automatically removing comments with certain words, and you have a system of effectively and automatically "cleaning" reddit of all speech that isn't in line with what reddit thinks is acceptable.
[–] DopeandDiamonds 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I have been off reddit for a while now. WTF happened? What a shitshow!
I feel like Voat is a big group of friends talking about shit together. Not everyone agrees but they are polite about it. Reddit has become a high school lunch room with each table making fun of the table next to them. No one realizing that they are not cool but thinking whatever clique they are in rules the school. This is so fucking mean girls with the burn booK.
[–] HitlerIsBlack 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
They need to find a way to monetize without selling out to advertisers, I think they should open an online shop and use Voat to sell their merchandise, I would be okay with ads on here if it was for a VOAT sponsored shop.
[–] AnEntFromVTrees 0 points 40 points 40 points (+40|-0) ago
We cant. One day we are going to turn on voat as quickly as we did reddit, if not quicker. It is the natural order of things
[–] AnEntFromVTrees 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
Who writes it? how is it going yo be amended? There is no way we are going to be able to vote on this.
[–] schwanstucker 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
I think the current policy will go a long way toward that. Reddit has a few endemic problems that can't be fixed now, because they live in denial. First, they put a person in charge who has a lot of talent, but apparently a great deal of baggage. I can't imagine why they did that. Then they fire someone who is immensely popular to put the exclamation point to their previous idiocy. Next, they manage to enrage many of the volunteers who assisted them to build the site by going over their heads.
It's now a corporate bureaucracy, and the problem is that their product is really the goodwill of the people who go there. If nobody likes it, nobody goes there. It's a fragile and difficult situation, made worse by every recent step being a misstep.
All of the self-justification in the world does no good if you lose your user base, and they are.
Now to Voat.
Voat simply needs to remain true to its current principles, and the Voaters need to recognize what a treasure it is to have a free speech forum like this. Freedom of speech, no censorship unless local laws so require, no corporate intervention, and LOTS of interaction from the developers (Please, Atko!!) that goes both ways. All of us have a right to speak up, but nobody has a right to harm anyone else. It's speech, after all--not machine guns at 40 paces.
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[–] RabidRaccoon 1 point 22 points 23 points (+23|-1) ago
Why not let them register but confine them to /v/debriefing or /v/redditdefectors. Then we could interrogate them to see if they are fleeing SJW tyranny to build a new life here, or if they are SJW spies who should be SHOT.
[–] BuddyLeeDontPlayNSt 2 points 24 points 26 points (+26|-2) ago
I'm OK with it, actually. Let the people who were smart enough to get the fuck out of Reddit over here, then restrict registering. This way you have (for the most part) intelligent conversations and content for a while. It's just up to the smart people to create content and discuss things. No longer can we be lurkers, but we must contribute for this new system to thrive.
That's why I like Voat.
[–] Jihadilucario 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Reddit's segregation of the subreddits is for the good of reddit. The segregated subreddits are separate but equal.