When I started using reddit about 7 years ago, it was a bastion of intelligent, sometimes irreverent community discussion. But with things like this, and the recent talk of "segregating" communities which reddit "wishes didn't exist", its become a very different place. The mass logging of users by a certain segment of those users is extremely troubling. It actually makes me watch my words, and where I comment. The path they're going is having a chilling effect on speech right now.
Its an awful shame, and what's crazier is that in their zeal to make a safe place, they're enabling shaming and bullying on a massive level. I don't even think the SJWs behind this even comprehend what they're doing.
Reddit will fall. And where the people go, the SJWs will go also to yell at them. How will Voat handle them when they eventually come?
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[–] Confusion 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Jumping community isn't about intelligence, it's about how much shit you can take before you get out. Changing communities is hard, and I got literally in the door when sign ups stopped. If anything, the crazies were first to jump ship here, we have all the "Hate" communities that were kicked off Reddit.
It's isn't about intelligence. It's numbers. Crowds are dumb. People are smart. And because Voat is so small, every comment, upvote and downvote has importance and impact because it isn't washed away, so people comment smarter.