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[–]mamwad14 points
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So when the /r/coontown refugees came here and completely changed the demographics and culture of voat, it was fine. But now that the new refugees seem to be a mixed bag of right and left wing anti-establishment types, you flip a shit.
I will say this: the admins need to deal with vote manipulation at some point. But, enough with the witch hunts. This site doesn't belong to you. The admins want it to be for everyone.
[–]Donbuster6 points
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And honestly? There's nothing wrong with that. Mods are not required to censor, and pizzagate isn't a default sub. You want a version of the sub with no deletions except for illegal content? That's great, make your own. Some people prefer curated content. So long as the default subs are free of non janitorial moderation, I'm happy.
You don't need to participate in those subverses, you can make and promote your own or find somewhere else that you feel comfortable with. This might come as a shock but it really doesn't matter if a moderator isn't running a subverse the way you want.
No one here is required to take your feelings or desires onboard. Do you even know how reddit became such a fucked up place? It started with emotional appeals, a small minority of users felt it was their right to remove anyone with opinions and content they didnt like in communities they were not a part of using emotional appeals like "fatty cries when fatty is called fatty" or "my ovaries mean I need special attention" and best of all "that is just offensive to X minority" because that is what authoritarians do, wait and see. It hasn't quite happened yet but when it does they will start trying to do that kind of appeal here and use baited comments and article submissions to put pressure on Voat as a company to "filter" content and users based on emotional nonsense.
Let those who want a second Reddit try and turn Voat into Reddit, they will either adjust to how things are done here or create utterly insignificant fiefdoms and toil endlessly trying to exert the slightest bit of control over narratives, communities, and the wider site in general. Subverse users and creators have a few tools at their disposal to rid themselves of jackasses and restart in another subverse whenever they want.
p.s. this kind of stuff will only stop if Voat is made read only.
[–]Gorillion0 points
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Agree, seek out and destroy outside manipulation. All else use your downvoats or big boy words. It's not like old time voaters are suddenly going to get tired of shitposting annoying walk-ins.
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[–] mamwad 14 points 17 points 31 points (+31|-14) ago
So when the /r/coontown refugees came here and completely changed the demographics and culture of voat, it was fine. But now that the new refugees seem to be a mixed bag of right and left wing anti-establishment types, you flip a shit.
I will say this: the admins need to deal with vote manipulation at some point. But, enough with the witch hunts. This site doesn't belong to you. The admins want it to be for everyone.
[–] KosherHiveKicker 1 point 10 points 11 points (+11|-1) ago
The difference here should be noted....
There are multiple mods in /v/pizzagate that are censoring posts on a rEddit-esque level.
[–] Donbuster 6 points 7 points 13 points (+13|-6) ago
And honestly? There's nothing wrong with that. Mods are not required to censor, and pizzagate isn't a default sub. You want a version of the sub with no deletions except for illegal content? That's great, make your own. Some people prefer curated content. So long as the default subs are free of non janitorial moderation, I'm happy.
[–] weezkitty 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Then I assume you also have a problem with how fatpeoplehate moderates too? Why aren't you complaining about them?
[–] mamwad 3 points 1 point 4 points (+4|-3) ago
It's a circlejerk sub.
[–] Gamio 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
You don't need to participate in those subverses, you can make and promote your own or find somewhere else that you feel comfortable with. This might come as a shock but it really doesn't matter if a moderator isn't running a subverse the way you want.
No one here is required to take your feelings or desires onboard. Do you even know how reddit became such a fucked up place? It started with emotional appeals, a small minority of users felt it was their right to remove anyone with opinions and content they didnt like in communities they were not a part of using emotional appeals like "fatty cries when fatty is called fatty" or "my ovaries mean I need special attention" and best of all "that is just offensive to X minority" because that is what authoritarians do, wait and see. It hasn't quite happened yet but when it does they will start trying to do that kind of appeal here and use baited comments and article submissions to put pressure on Voat as a company to "filter" content and users based on emotional nonsense.
Let those who want a second Reddit try and turn Voat into Reddit, they will either adjust to how things are done here or create utterly insignificant fiefdoms and toil endlessly trying to exert the slightest bit of control over narratives, communities, and the wider site in general. Subverse users and creators have a few tools at their disposal to rid themselves of jackasses and restart in another subverse whenever they want.
p.s. this kind of stuff will only stop if Voat is made read only.
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[–] eagleshigh 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Good times.
[–] Gorillion 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Agree, seek out and destroy outside manipulation. All else use your downvoats or big boy words. It's not like old time voaters are suddenly going to get tired of shitposting annoying walk-ins.
[–] TAThatBoomerang [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
This is actually more of what I'm referring to: https://i.sli.mg/shl614.jpg