The funniest part of this is that voat was started specifically to "escape SJWs", you can't downvoat unless you've been approved by enough voaters (aka you've achieved your quota of SJW-bashing), and literally everyone who has heard of voat knows that it's meant to be a reactionary protest alternative to reddit.
But sure, freedom of speech theme, we'll go with that.
[–] TheSniperFan 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
As long as no group takes over, we'll be fine.
[–] cointelpro_shill 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The fact that there are no defaults will help this quite a bit. We can actually stage mass migrations to new politics/pics/videos hubs if the current ones start to go bad.
[–] Sevenomens 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Voat's philosophy seems to be to look at Reddit, what it did right and how it fell to where it is now, and learn from it. I just hope the site continues down that road, and it will be a tough one.
[–] TheSniperFan 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Well, seeing a website go to hell and actually doing better yourself are two different issues.
You have to hold your ground and stay true to your values in the face of a growing community and therefore growing influence and power.
The number of bad apples grows proportionally with the growth of every community. The key is to make sure they can't take over.
[–] Trey ago
Welcome!
I'm here because Reddit was getting stuffy for me and I could see the power users becoming a bit much. I'm lucky join up during alpha and get to see things form organically.