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
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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.
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[–] SaveTheChildren [S] 7 points -4 points 3 points (+3|-7) ago (edited ago)
Edit: here's some more strangeness https://i.imgtc.com/VbHmeVP.png
Notice how I call OzarkMountaiMan pal, but empress says I called beetle a pal??? Notice how these 'different people' all seem to be sitting at their computer ready to have their little conversations with empress, ready to upvoat 'her' and donvoat whoever else. This is not normal voat behaivor. Clear alt user and voat manipulator.
Here's an alleged 50's housewife saying KEK https://i.imgtc.com/LgP5jxG.png
I figured I should post this here rather than on /v/whatever.
Just keep your eye on @empress, @beetlejuicex3, @theoldguy, @paul_stroud and others. Empress likes to have conversations with 'herself' and 'her' alts, and 'she' likes to brigade with downvoats hard when 'she' gets triggered by you. Nothing about the voting pattern around that account make any sense, and there is 0% chance that account is owned by a middle aged housewife. Just pay attention to the way he talks. Obvious male. They amount of upvoats / downvoats dished out around this creature are also very unnatural for voat. I'm pretty used to how upvoating downvoating goes around here and wherever this character shows up it is a complete upvoat/downvoat clusterfuck like reddit.
I have NEVER seen so many upvoats/downvoats so deep in a benign post (check the pdf I took of my previous thread). https://www.pdfhost.net/index.php?Action=DownloadFile&id=98e25c216337be687079eaa0c98f1ffd
Middle aged housewives don't know how to use a computer. They aren't moderating voat subreddits and spending their entire day on voat trying to trigger people they don't like. Makes no sense.
We'll see how many downvoats this shill throws at this post.
PS: @empress loves to claim other people are sanegoati. Anyone with a brain should know I'm not him. Shill alert!
[–] theoldguy 2 points 3 points 5 points (+5|-2) ago
Painting with the oversized brush again, I see. It's easy to oversimplify when you're a drooling retard. I know plenty of housewives who use computers, and I just might tell them about you, you'll be staring at the business end of quite a few hissy-fits!
I don't think you're sanegoat, you're much much worse.
[–] SaveTheChildren [S] 6 points -5 points 1 point (+1|-6) ago
Worse because I see right through your bullshit? Gotcha.
[–] [deleted] 6 points -4 points 2 points (+2|-6) ago
[–] SaveTheChildren [S] 6 points -4 points 2 points (+2|-6) ago
Why?