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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[–] mamwad 5 points -3 points 2 points (+2|-5) ago (edited ago)
The problem was that you were connecting that information to a voat account. That's why people were upset.
I don't really expect nor care if your subscribers are paragons of reason, but I do expect more from the moderators here. Editorializing a popular post to push a narrative and encourage downvotes is wrong.
[–] Crensch 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Really? I was under the impression that it was a plethora of accounts spamming a business here.
[–] mamwad 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
First, sorry for saying "you." That's not fair.
And while you have a point, I'll say what I said in the original thread. I don't think the punishment for violating the user agreement should be doxxing. Perhaps this information could have been given to Atko and Puttitout privately.
Anyway, my main point is that obviously people are going to disagree about what should be done about any problem the community has. Someone's we aren't going to come to a resolution on a particular matter, but we should at least make an honest attempt. It's why I created /v/voatcongress, and I really do wish more people of varying opinions would populate the sub do we don't have to have these discussions elsewhere. If PV is going to be the executive branch of voat, maybe we need to develop checks and balances.