Free speech is important, but it's all the majority of users bitch about. This post (if anyone sees it anyway) is probably going to get downvoted and people are going to tell me to go back to reddit but honestly I wish everyone would chill out a little bit. The cool thing about Voat is that nothing is censored and you can say your mind. I wouldn't want that to change. Everyone is just so anti-reddit that instead of enjoying what we currently have, people bitch about non-issues.
Made up scenario, a mod on v/aww deleted a post that talked about niggers. That's not censorship, that's quality control to not ruin the subverse. Yet everyone and their mothers will flip out about how that's a power mod and it's turning Voat into Reddit. Users do the same thing, too. Someone could comment "Well maybe we shouldn't talk about burning Muslims on a subverse about baby elephants" and it'd get mass downvoted while people would harass that person for being a SJW for wanting to censor people.
Obviously these are extreme examples, but my point stands. I wish everyone would take a step back and stop attacking people for everything. Enjoy what you have and stop harassing users in order to "keep this place from turning into reddit". It's just the internet, it isn't life or death, it doesn't even effect your real life. Or it shouldn't anyway.
This would be a complete nonissue if I didn't see this type of argument every single day on here. "OMG this mod is Hitler, remove them!", "DAE hate this user 'cause he's a total SJW?", "What should we do to keep free speech alive on Voat?". Just chill, guys. Stop trying to prevent Voat from falling into what reddit is. Atko obviously knows what he's doing, I hardly doubt he'd let this place fall into the wrong hands. I'll stop ranting because I think I made my point clear by bitching about people who bitch.
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I understand the arguments against what I said, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of seeing it constantly when, for the most part, mods do exactly what you said they should do. When there is a bad mod, they get knocked out by voat die-hards. It's just not quality stuff, to me anyway, and I can't just block all of the drama because it's everywhere constantly.