Well, Boobs, I'll tell you something that will sound harsh, but it's not. With an open heart and total absence of evilness, poal is not relevant enough to be the underdog. Don't take me wrong, I really like here, remembers me of whoaverse in the beggining. I hope it will, I try to help when I can, posting, commenting, saying people in voat that having another fos site is good and there's no need to dissidence between voat and poal (I really believe this). But it's a tiny community, the average voting number is like 7. For now, I would classify poal as a good promise.
Wow. Brutally honest reply. Good shit man!
And I agree somewhat. I got to Voat just after whoaverse, before the major migrations like fattening, pao etc.
Poal feels ALOT like Voat did back then, just fewer users.
But yeah, I don't think we are in the running yet to be considered an underdog. More like a possible future contender. But I like it here and will stay.
But I like it here and will stay.
Metoo (lol)
I didn't have the intention to be brutal (I know, it's just slang), but to put things in perspective. In the internet, voat is kinda irrelevant compared to reddit. I have my doubts if freedom of speech and success are compatible in [current year]. You'll have a number of adamant users that would never accept safe space content with adposts and adAMAs inserted by the admins, but the big numbers are looking for safe spaces, it's saddening to say. If the commitment is freedom of speech, don't expect to be the next reddit. Unless the world finally sees the dementia behind this sjw crap and everybody becomes normal again. But the recent Linucks (linux + cucks, got it, uh? Uh?) makes me think that the exact opposite is happening.
Oh God that linucks shit has me down.....
I appreciate your honesty. No really I do. I know poal isn't large enough to be a contender in the voat vs reddit thing. I'm not honestly sure it ever will be and thats okay. Its a labor of love. The one thing I know is here anyone can speak their mind and it won't be censored. On voat that just isn't true anymore and I laid my issues with voat to rest. Hell I've even commented there from time to time. I am considering the idea of going back just to run my subs.
We need to increase our numbers.
We are slowly, we lost some people but they are starting to come back it seems along with some newbies alone the way. Checkout the colored user names!
the average voting number is like 7.
We've got lots of lurkers too.
Thanks for your honest answer.
I know. But even if we have 100 users, it's not much. Don't take it as a "give up", if I thought this place sucks I wouldn't be here.
Poal is closing to a thousand registered accounts.
It's growing slowly with quality users.
I disagree that relevance has anything to do with being the underdog.
Poal is relevant to Voat, hence why they've been giving Boobs shit about starting Poal.
Furthermore, the beliefs held by Poal's admins are contrary to that of most sites today.
Sounds like an underdog to me.
Yeah, maybe my expectative for the underdogs is the problem. Although the underdog doesn't have to win, I'm an helpless underdog believer, and I always expect that they'll succeed somehow. This was my point, poal is still too small to have this chance, IMO. And maybe this is a good thing. I hope more users come here with no flood.
Edit: by suceed, I meant becoming big. If the goal is to build a good platform, it's succeeding already. If the goal is building a community, we're on it. If the goal is to beat the top dog, well man, it'll be a long long road. I hope that's not, this is not a goal that would bring good things IMO.
I remember the Whoaverse days, and your're right. Poal does feel a lot more like that. That's not a bad thing. Mass influxes of users can make all kinds of problems. I feel like Poal is more open to actual reasoned debate in the same way Whoaverse, and even Reddit used to be once upon a time.
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