It's not so much an official call for investors as a couple lines in a post about statistics. The past few months have been HUGE for this site in terms of user acquisition and the admin compiled a bunch of stats. The post mentioned the possibility of a kickstarter as well as asking sort of tongue-in-cheek if anyone knows any rich friends. Here's the post
As you may have already noticed, voat has no ads and as such it does not make any money. We are currently looking for investors and we may also be starting a kickstarter campaign to raise some money to help us get through the first year. If you know a rich person who can realize the potential of voat, please hook us up.
That seems like only a half-joking comment reaching for some serious inquires. Hopefully an admin can weigh in here, and that owners of this site have access to better income alternatives than this. Community-driven Kickstarter campaigns, sure, but individual investors would expect some level of absolute control over the site in a tit for tat "we give you money, you let us control the community" agreement. I'm sure Reddit Corp never succumbed to that sort of thing. Absolutely sure.
[–] alphabeta [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's not so much an official call for investors as a couple lines in a post about statistics. The past few months have been HUGE for this site in terms of user acquisition and the admin compiled a bunch of stats. The post mentioned the possibility of a kickstarter as well as asking sort of tongue-in-cheek if anyone knows any rich friends. Here's the post
[–] something_went_wrong 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Thanks. From that post:
That seems like only a half-joking comment reaching for some serious inquires. Hopefully an admin can weigh in here, and that owners of this site have access to better income alternatives than this. Community-driven Kickstarter campaigns, sure, but individual investors would expect some level of absolute control over the site in a tit for tat "we give you money, you let us control the community" agreement. I'm sure Reddit Corp never succumbed to that sort of thing. Absolutely sure.
Edit: more words, etc