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So its been an interesting week for me, lots of new users and a few new problems to deal with. I believe we have come up with an effective solution for the problem. Thank you to all who suggested it.

In the spirit of maintaining Poal's integrity as a truly free speech platform, we are going to implement a blocking feature to give the individual users the choice to block whom they wish. Instead of us as the admins deciding for everyone who gets to speak to whom(it will be expandable) Admins' role is to make sure the site is running and handle people who break the ToS. Anything else should be left to users to decide. (assuming they have the right tools)

That being said in the mean time we have some problem users that have been generally assholes to everyone here on the site. I've got to do something as they are discouraging people from speaking. So until the feature is implemented these accounts and if you want specifics I'm happy to give them but I'm guessing everyone already knows who I'm talking about will be disabled.

It really sucks that a feature like this even needs to exist but it apparently does.

I don't want to see this site go the way of other similar platforms. So this is how we are going to try and prevent that.

So its been an interesting week for me, lots of new users and a few new problems to deal with. I believe we have come up with an effective solution for the problem. Thank you to all who suggested it. In the spirit of maintaining Poal's integrity as a truly free speech platform, we are going to implement a blocking feature to give the individual users the choice to block whom they wish. Instead of us as the admins deciding for everyone who gets to speak to whom(it will be expandable) Admins' role is to make sure the site is running and handle people who break the ToS. Anything else should be left to users to decide. (assuming they have the right tools) That being said in the mean time we have some problem users that have been generally assholes to everyone here on the site. I've got to do something as they are discouraging people from speaking. So until the feature is implemented these accounts and if you want specifics I'm happy to give them but I'm guessing everyone already knows who I'm talking about will be disabled. It really sucks that a feature like this even needs to exist but it apparently does. I don't want to see this site go the way of other similar platforms. So this is how we are going to try and prevent that.

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It's sad to say but those rate limits have twice at least prevented Voat from essentially being taken over or held hostage.

There are some really screwed up liberal groups on Reddit that see the writing on the wall as far as that site is concerned. It didn't help that myself and others mocked them a couple of years ago about it.

Danger Hair Reddit mod: Why don't you fuck off to Voat already with the other asshole blah blah blahs already.

Me: I already am there and modding a few subs. I still come to Reddit for a few specific subs. But yes keep telling everyone to leave the site. Eventually you'll be here alone until the site is shutdown then all of you will come to Voat and try to ruin that site next. Just like the Digg migration to Reddit.