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

Let's just kill Voat now then how about it? Make it worse than reddit from the get-go.

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

Centralized power structures of all kinds are fundamentally flawed by their very nature, in that sociopaths crave power and concentrations of power always attract sociopaths like moths to flame.

Typically, those who form and watch power structures early on are able to detect and combat attempts to seize it for malicious intent. However, as time passes, vigilance wains and sociopaths adapt to the system to find a way to game it for their benefit. Sociopaths are naturally more driven to gain power than benevolent people, and they are willing to resort to more cut throat tactics with greater risks.

The first thing that sociopaths do is ensure that they can operate with impunity within the power structure, usually through nepotism. After that they will carry out the transformation of the power structure in such a way that it can reshape things to suit them more. These changes gradually erode faith in the system, which in turn causes the sociopaths to respond with direct and brutal methods of control. This leads to further erosion in faith until the foundation crumbles and the entire thing falls apart.

Michael Huemer's book "The Problem of Political Authority" details this process very well, and I highly encourage everyone interested in this process to read it. The problem we are dealing with is as old as the first laws. I don't think there is a great way to solve it - the only way that seems to work in the long term is to eliminate power structures and rely on spontaneous order.

If I were to suggest a method for dealing with the problem caused by sociopaths and nepotism, it would be to eliminate mods almost altogether. If there is any mod at all, it should be a spam removal bot.