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[–] schwanstucker 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

I think the current policy will go a long way toward that. Reddit has a few endemic problems that can't be fixed now, because they live in denial. First, they put a person in charge who has a lot of talent, but apparently a great deal of baggage. I can't imagine why they did that. Then they fire someone who is immensely popular to put the exclamation point to their previous idiocy. Next, they manage to enrage many of the volunteers who assisted them to build the site by going over their heads.
It's now a corporate bureaucracy, and the problem is that their product is really the goodwill of the people who go there. If nobody likes it, nobody goes there. It's a fragile and difficult situation, made worse by every recent step being a misstep. All of the self-justification in the world does no good if you lose your user base, and they are. Now to Voat. Voat simply needs to remain true to its current principles, and the Voaters need to recognize what a treasure it is to have a free speech forum like this. Freedom of speech, no censorship unless local laws so require, no corporate intervention, and LOTS of interaction from the developers (Please, Atko!!) that goes both ways. All of us have a right to speak up, but nobody has a right to harm anyone else. It's speech, after all--not machine guns at 40 paces.