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I expect moderators to (voluntarily) do the following:
grow and nurture their subs
engage with users and use their sub as regular users
remove spam and illegal content
Moderators who do the above would be awesome people to have around here and that would help us all a lot but nobody can keep doing that for free for any reasonable amount of time. As long as we have humans doing these things, there will always be room for trouble and we would have to play whack-a-mole.
What you're asking for would create the need for us to continue getting involved every time a moderator decides to do something Voat users don't approve of. While our involvement would make sure Voat is what we want it to be, the hard truth is that we don't have time for that kind of involvement. We're not working full time for Voat (in fact, there are times where weeks go by where we don't have time to do anything for Voat because we have a life and daytime jobs), we're not getting paid and I really wish you guys could chime in with ideas on how to keep Voat alive because time is running out and money is not going to last forever.
Anyways, we are thinking about ways we can fix moderation problems (social problem) once and for all (for example, have the community moderate Voat by taking "delete" feature away form moderators and giving it to the users) but this will take some time (6 months? a year?) to develop and experiment with before launching it site-wide. In the meantime, the clock is ticking...
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To fund Voat, I think you can begin to sell merchandise. T-shirts with the Voat goat on them would sell like hot cakes. There are service providers that will handle the entire turnaround process for you, including production and shipping. All you have to do is upload the artwork. So you can start doing that real quick.
To keep subverses modded by well-liked mods, I think there have to be user elections during head mod transfers, and also periodically (say, once every 6 months or a year) by active users of the sub. The definition of "active user" is open to debate, but I think subscription to the sub for a certain period and a certain SCP+CCP total in the sub are good criteria.
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[–] Atko 3 points 65 points 68 points (+68|-3) ago
I expect moderators to (voluntarily) do the following:
Moderators who do the above would be awesome people to have around here and that would help us all a lot but nobody can keep doing that for free for any reasonable amount of time. As long as we have humans doing these things, there will always be room for trouble and we would have to play whack-a-mole.
What you're asking for would create the need for us to continue getting involved every time a moderator decides to do something Voat users don't approve of. While our involvement would make sure Voat is what we want it to be, the hard truth is that we don't have time for that kind of involvement. We're not working full time for Voat (in fact, there are times where weeks go by where we don't have time to do anything for Voat because we have a life and daytime jobs), we're not getting paid and I really wish you guys could chime in with ideas on how to keep Voat alive because time is running out and money is not going to last forever.
Anyways, we are thinking about ways we can fix moderation problems (social problem) once and for all (for example, have the community moderate Voat by taking "delete" feature away form moderators and giving it to the users) but this will take some time (6 months? a year?) to develop and experiment with before launching it site-wide. In the meantime, the clock is ticking...
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[–] frankenmine [S] 1 point 16 points 17 points (+17|-1) ago
Even Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics had a secret, zeroth law, that allowed the three laws to be ignored in cases of harm to humanity.
I think a similar case can be made for harm to Voat.
[–] frankenmine [S] 1 point 12 points 13 points (+13|-1) ago (edited ago)
To fund Voat, I think you can begin to sell merchandise. T-shirts with the Voat goat on them would sell like hot cakes. There are service providers that will handle the entire turnaround process for you, including production and shipping. All you have to do is upload the artwork. So you can start doing that real quick.
To keep subverses modded by well-liked mods, I think there have to be user elections during head mod transfers, and also periodically (say, once every 6 months or a year) by active users of the sub. The definition of "active user" is open to debate, but I think subscription to the sub for a certain period and a certain SCP+CCP total in the sub are good criteria.
[–] Sausage_Mahoney 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Subreddits?
[–] Kal 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
If you are inactive for 30 days can I request ownership of Voat?
[–] ElementalPee 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Hey now that you're a company do you have a physical mailbox address that we could send checks or money orders to?
[–] samwisekoi 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
/u/Atko - is there an address where we could send actual donation checks? Skip PayPal and BTC altogether; a check in USD or Euros would be easy to do.
Help us by getting a post office box where we could send you money!