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[–] go1dfish 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Anyways, we are thinking about ways we can fix moderation problems (social problem) once and for all (for example, have the community moderate Voat by taking "delete" feature away form moderators and giving it to the users) but this will take some time (6 months? a year?) to develop and experiment with before launching it site-wide.

That sounds damn exciting. I like where your head is at on this.

You should write a "declaration of Voat" some time describing what you see as the core principles of Voat and what its purpose is going forward.

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

I think plenty of ideas have been offered up as to how to fund Voat, namely merchandise and ad space to start. From then on I've advocated having an actual paid AMA verse run by an employee with ample signage to the users that the verse is an advertisement. Hell, do a donation bar to let users know how much the site has to go to break even each month. Transparency and information does prod action.

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[–] ElementalPee 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Hey now that you're a company do you have a physical mailbox address that we could send checks or money orders to?

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

/u/Atko - is there an address where we could send actual donation checks? Skip PayPal and BTC altogether; a check in USD or Euros would be easy to do.

Help us by getting a post office box where we could send you money!

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[–] Kal 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

If you are inactive for 30 days can I request ownership of Voat?

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[–] frankenmine [S] 1 point 12 points (+13|-1) ago  (edited ago)

To fund Voat, I think you can begin to sell merchandise. T-shirts with the Voat goat on them would sell like hot cakes. There are service providers that will handle the entire turnaround process for you, including production and shipping. All you have to do is upload the artwork. So you can start doing that real quick.

To keep subverses modded by well-liked mods, I think there have to be user elections during head mod transfers, and also periodically (say, once every 6 months or a year) by active users of the sub. The definition of "active user" is open to debate, but I think subscription to the sub for a certain period and a certain SCP+CCP total in the sub are good criteria.

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

Subreddits?

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

Subreddits?

What is this?

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

Fixed. Thanks.

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[–] frankenmine [S] 1 point 16 points (+17|-1) ago 

Any action by an admin or mod which causes harm to Voat, Inc. should be thoroughly investigated and acted upon quickly.

Even Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics had a secret, zeroth law, that allowed the three laws to be ignored in cases of harm to humanity.

I think a similar case can be made for harm to Voat.