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.
Resources and Important Links:
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[–] oiseaulibre [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Cool, man. I haven't gamed in a couple months, but I'll check out your posts. I want to clarify that I think I made it sound like the bias/looking the other way stuff is intentionally done; however, this may or may not be the case. I don't know people's motives and the reasons they do things. We're all bias, yet most, if not all of us overlook our own biases. I'll try to stay away from too much shitposting. And as I try to not shitpost on PV, I hope you and the other mods can try and look at the posts on this sub with a different perspective. (Other people besides me see the same thing, that is why this sub get continuously attacked.)
Also, I'm not sure many people picked up on my first joke/shitpost. I challenged the user "tenacious" [the numbers guy who spams this sub] to debate me. This user used to spam PV with shit like "kevdude debate me", "jambo debate me", or "devinefits debate me", etc. so that was more of a joke making fun of him than and joke on PV. He'd also continuously ask people to debate him in chat and people would mostly ignore him. Anyways, nice talk, most people get really hostile about topics like this, but you didn't. Peace man.
[–] Disappointed 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I'll definitely take something away from this. Open ears are a must for learning.