Archived Will Voat go the way of Reddit and slowly hand over major subs to SJWs? (AskVoat2)
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Archived Will Voat go the way of Reddit and slowly hand over major subs to SJWs? (AskVoat2)
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[–] WatDabney 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago
I don't think there's much chance of that.
Voat does potentially face the same overarching threat - that of one particular group of angry and intolerant users dedicating themselves to gaining control over what is considered to be acceptable and unacceptable opinion here through a coordinated effort to attack and drive away anyone and everyone who expresses a view with which they don't agree - but, unlike Reddit, that group isn't SJWs. I think of them as SJWWs - the Social Justice Warrior Warriors. It seems an amusing bit of apparently unintentional irony that currently, those on Voat who are most likely to engage in essentially the same tactics used by the SJWs on Reddit are those most vocally opposed to what the SJWs did to Reddit. But what it really is, at heart, is just two different versions of the same basic dynamic - a group of angry and intolerant posters with a reactionary opposition to those who express a particular set of ideas and the belief that the expression of those ideas is so innately harmful that they're rightly justified in using whatever means might serve to proactively silence those who might express them. That is the threat - it doesn't matter in the least who's on which side.
The admins seem fully aware of that threat though, and appear to be prepared to deal with it no matter who's on which side.