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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[–] Crensch 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Executive branch?
The only power we have is due to people in general trusting what we have to say. The moment we go off the script, we have nothing.
The "checks and balances" are the users of this website. Any assertion to the contrary is pure bullshit.
[–] Mickgoestojail 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
And an attempt to take the power away from the users and put it into the hands of a few "legislators". You're right on the money as usual.
[–] mamwad 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
Yet, the moderators here have not handled criticism from the users very well in my opinion. You control the narrative of the sub with disingenuous tags, and critical contents are more often than not met with rudeness and baseless accusations.
Keep in mind that your subscribers are only a small minority of voaters. Much of the user base sees you as a brigade sub. That's largely because how the moderators here act.
[–] 4060502? 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
I feel like this is untrue. I haven't seen any but a small group repeat that and honestly , having read your posts before I'm disappointed to see you repeat it too. It probably means nothing to you but I felt I had to say it.
[–] Crensch 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
The "users" critical of us are by and large the same vocal morons that try to find anything at all wrong with PV, and claim to be speaking for the users of voat, while not actually having earned the weight they claim to have.
We reduce the amount of bullshit people might think are legitimate posts by using flairs. This is a service to those who would rather read useful information here.
Are you asserting that other people do not check up on the happenings of voat while not being subscribed, or are you just making an obvious observation on the number of our subscribers?
Tell me, why is it that people like techius require an alt army in order to combat this "small minority" when your supposed legislation subverse could just as easily have enough to combat the subscribers here, were it worth the 1s and 0s it was made of?
The same users saying the same thing over and over again like Faux News pundits who don't actually need to do anything but repeat the same thing over and over for their subscribers to believe it?
I'd give voaters more credit than that, but if you think they're all sheeple, we'll just have to disagree.
Yeah? What, exactly, do they do that makes your implied majority of users think us a brigade sub?
You do know that a parse of this subverse would show that it's only people like you and techius that claim that, right?
Very, very few others have said anything like it, and I see new usernames popping up every day, like @dungles, pointing out that your assertions about that are complete bullshit.