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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[–] DeusExSapientia [S] ago
I don't. It's constructive criticism. Can/did you fix it?
[–] GeniusOfOdd ago
I will have a look if there is a setting to stop it going in there but it feels like you are blaming me for Voats "slow" traffic and that's not entirely fair.
Perhaps if people put a little effort in, this would be a thriving community where my posts are drowned out. I'm inadvertently acting as the canary in the coal mine to voat's dwindling web presence and you are casting shame upon my sub for it.
[–] DeusExSapientia [S] ago (edited ago)
Hell, at first I thought you were a shill-bot. It's your sub that's bringing you some criticism. I made no such accusations, but I did point out that it is spamming up all. Of coarse after blocking it, it was no problem for me. Someone suggested de-listing your subverse as a possible correction.
edit: seems to be okay now.