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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[–] grace8 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Ask Crensh aboout how to change the status of a sub to shitposting. I dont know how to do it.
Yes, Crensch was on the inside of that crew. Nothing can destroy a corrupt group more than an insider turned whistle blower. America is changing. People are waking up. Putt's failure to act and allowing this for years is the bigger concern.
Hopefully Crensch has truly flipped. His actions have been nothing but honorable since the break. If we have been hoodwinked we will start again in a new sub. Nothing can stop this movement. The Dems are so split they cant succeed. The candidates are pushing so far left they will even wake up some lefties to the dangers. I cant imagine anyone over 35 thinking everything can be free and wanting taxes to go up. They have to trust the gov a whole lot to let the gov have all that tax money and then have complete control over who goes to college and what gets covered by health care.
Check out v/greatawakeningmeta and repost questions there. Ive told you everything I know. And go over to vgreatawkening and notice the huge decrease in racist comments and other crap. It was almost all them. And Crensch has banned tons of them. It's wonderful!
[–] awwisnotafarmpromise [S] ago
@puttitout has acted in some big ways, just not for free speech or the integrity of voat. He's a fucking sleezeball in the extreme. Or just incredibly stupid.
[–] grace8 ago (edited ago)
His actions are what a man is judged by. What was his motivation in starting voat and allowing it to be abused? Only he knows. Voat is a great containment structure too put things you don't want others to be exposed to. As long as Putt doesn't stand up for subs integrity and allows ProtectVoat thugs that is all it will ever be. He has a choice to make the same as every American today. His recent choice to support Crensch and v/greatawakening is building hope in his leadership.
I don't believe we can blame events on a lack of intelligence. Everyone here has intelligence. There it sits Putt. If you stand up for subs Voat will take Reddits place in no time. If yu dont it will remain a containment structure for untouchable topics.