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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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.
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[–] Crensch [S] ago
Maybe you're right. Despite generally being in the center of many of the shitstorms here, I don't recall the eyeglasses guy. I also wasn't really aware that sanegoat had made any kind of real impact on Voat.
My thing is usually to find flaws in other people's words and turn their comments/posts into swiss cheese.
All that aside, I, and probably many others like me have every intention of calling out Trump when he does something that harms the citizens of this country - and like many others, I don't give a solid fuck about anyone of any other country. What I cannot abide, however, is this CONSTANT mountain-out-of-molehill or mountain-out-of-unknown or mountain-out-of-lies that CONTINUALLY is pushed by CTR/Shareblue. EVERYTHING Trump does is not even under a microscope, it's viewed through a smoke-and-mirrors looking glass for ANYTHING for them to jump on as him being a traitor to his own base.
I consider anyone jumping on Trump immediately after something like this as either battle-fatigued, overemotional, a shill, or a useful idiot. I reserve the first two for very, very precious few voaters.
I mean, even if it was a colossal blunder, he's done more for the US citizen in his couple months as president than the last 5? in their entire tenures. Give the man some breathing room for fuck's sake.
There's something to be said for not "blindly" (kek) following Trump, and also something to be said for not blindly following every end-of-the-world trope the MSM/shareblue jump on about him, too.