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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[–] oiseaulibre [S] ago
The problem is shit like this thread: https://voat.co/v/ProtectVoat/1896053
Beatle is trolling and trying to push an agenda against users he doesn't like. He makes stuff up without evidence and you can tell by his comments and tone in the thread that he is just fucking around. When I bring it up to the mods (specifically kev in this instance) he plays dumb and looks the other way. But he KNOWS beatle and the shit he is trying to pull. I spoke nothing but the truth in that thread and got buried with downvoats (which when I'm not being a troll or shitposting somehow only happens when I call out beatle, go figure right...that isn't suspicious). You can see my frustration, right? In threads like this when I'm dead serious and "call them out" like you are suggesting I get suspiciously buried with downvoats and the mods look the other way with my concerns. This thread isn't the first time that it's happened in and it probably won't be the last.
[–] Disappointed 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Right but if you are not a part of a Sane group why are you associating yourself with it by arguing in that thread? If it doesn't apply to you then it doesn't apply to you. The fact is the a group of users who target the admins on this site for harassment. That is a direct threat to Voat because if the admins leave, the site is done. If you don't want to be associated with that group then stop jumping into threads calling them out. That thread didn't name you as part of the group did it? So why did you take offense to it? I rally don't get that. You say you are only a member of the sane sub only because you were invited but something doesn't smell right at all. You are acting like you are very much apart of it. Get away from th bad news and you'll stop being a part of that bad news. Because it is bad news.
[–] [deleted] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)