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[–] Torchhead 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

What prevents that stuff from happening here?

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[–] Dereliction 0 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago 

Three things:

1) Voat has a small population and therefore does not represent a lucrative place to bother with when better opportunities can be had at places like Reddit.

2) Voat has a reputation involving racists, fat-people shamers and an anything goes environment. Not exactly an environment companies look to shine their brand or own reputation among.

3) If Voaters discover corruption and corporate influence, the reaction is likely to be more vitriolic than at other avenues. Not worth it for most companies.

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[–] dabork 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Not much. Right now we're small enough to be off the radar and most big corporations wouldn't want to be associated with us anyway because of the two most popular subverses. That said, it's not at all unlikely that it could/already is happening.

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[–] Disappointed 2 points 4 points (+6|-2) ago 

If you suspect anything is happening like this in the future, let us know at v/protectvoat

In our sidebar:

This sub is for documenting the attempts to drag Voat down into the mud by various censorship, advertising or shilling groups

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[–] HomerSimpson [S] 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

You really think Protectvoat can stop shilling? It can barely stop censorship and that is with help from others.

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[–] aeoo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

What prevents that stuff from happening here?

Nothing that I know of, other than this site isn't as popular as reddit yet, so it might not merit the attention from the greedbags yet.

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[–] HomerSimpson [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

And likely will have more corruption because of the way the site's mail is handled. Mods can't report other mods doing shilling in mod mail like how it happened in /r/starwarsbattlefront because mod mail doesn't exist. The "Message the Moderators" button sends each mod an individual message.