User Moderation Policy Explained
As a community we need to commit to self-moderate. Trolls and shitposters often take advantage of the free speech environment afforded by minimal moderation to brigade us with troll attempts and shitposts. Harassing with shitpost brigades was (and is) one of the techniques employed by SRS on that other site. Our policy is not to delete these posts or ban these users, so we need the rest of the users to use their votes. Trolls will get tired if the only response they receive in here is downvotes. So sort by "New" and downvote all the troll and shitpost threads, then sort by "Hot" to browse the sub. Important threads will always be stickied
Adspam, Copypasta (duplicate posts and/or duplicate comments within the same thread), Dox, and Porn (exposed breasts/genitalia/anus/explicit sex acts) will be removed by the mod team. We will also remove posts that hijack web browsers in any way.
What is a "Concern Troll?"
Standard Answer for Concern Trolls
This sub is for documenting the attempts to drag Voat down into the mud by various censorship, advertising or shilling groups. One of our main goals is preventing the spread of PC-Driven Censorship to Voat. We watched self-righteous elitist powermods destroy the free speech environment that once existed on reddit. We will not allow that to happen to Voat.
The primary way to defend our free speech platform is to confront censorship when we see it.
If you feel you have been the victim of censorship, try PMing the mod to see if it was a misunderstanding of some kind. If this does not work, make a thread in here. Provide a link to the thread or relevant modlog. Ping the offending mod in a comment stating the issue. We will do everything we can to resolve the issue.
Use archive.is to screen-cap threads.
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[–] piratse 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Or just get rid of the stupid votes all together.
[–] AOU [S] 3 points 5 points 8 points (+8|-3) ago
Archived: http://archive.is/NArKY
[–] AOU [S] 2 points 4 points 6 points (+6|-2) ago
@atko @puttitout
[–] dabork 2 points 0 points 2 points (+2|-2) ago (edited ago)
So what are you going to do about it? I'm not even trying to be a dick I'm literally asking what you plan to do about it.
It's impossible to stop them from accessing the site, and if you keep account creation locked too long the site stagnates and dies. Banning is useless and if you start gimping the voting system you're going to piss off more people. There are already several bots for the site on the darknet and unless Atko completely changes or locks the API they're only going to get worse.
So what's the plan? Just keep crying about it and spamming Atko with pings even though it's been made andbundantly clear he doesn't give a shit about the politics of this site beyond keeping it running every day.
So what's your end game here?
[–] brandon816 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
How about convincing them to make it so that SCP and CCP don't count towards people's totals in subverses with downvote restrictions ( what this guy said above: https://voat.co/v/ProtectVoat/1536091/7477279 )? With that change, we can fix it ourselves, and Atko et all don't need to get involved in the future.
[–] dabork 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago (edited ago)
Good luck with that. I'm sure he'll get right on that right after his next tri-monthly announcement. Maybe he'll also go back to financial transparency like it was in the beginning while we're fantasizing.