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I'm all for a voting system, but if those votes have consequences, then I agree voting should be regulated to avoid large groups forcing their viewpoints on others. Also, if votes come with consequences besides that of people seeing your vote counts then I wouldn't call it speech.

I'm all for a voting system, but if those votes have consequences, then I agree voting should be regulated to avoid large groups forcing their viewpoints on others.

Also, if votes come with consequences besides that of people seeing your vote counts then I wouldn't call it speech.

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I'm not going to defend Poal because their position is clearly retarded. But you need to face that you are arguing for a heckler's veto (which is more than simply speaking in disagreement to another), not for speech. If you disagree and made a comment, it would have no effect besides speaking in opposition to speech you disliked.

If you'll remember, this very issue is a major reason they set up Poal and left Voat to begin with. I made an account here then and then stayed on Voat, since this places censors too much.

As an aside, my UV/DV was around 10:1, so I wonder about your voting habits or at least note that you may just really be a lot more misanthropic than I (which is cool, too, I guess). In any case, your voting habits were far from typical in early 2015 even if you failed to notice it.

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I made an account here then and then stayed on Voat, since this places censors too much.

(((your))) timeline doesn't' add up.

You claimed it happened in the alpha days. The account is 2y old.

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Alpha of Voat. I made my account there in March 2015.

I forget what prompted me to make this account here (I'm sure it was some exodus or Voat downtime), but it was apparently 2 years ago. First use of it was within the past few days.