Summary
- Atko basically built Voat, he was the programming webmaster who wrote all the code
- Putt came in a bit later, helped Atko with the community side of things
- Putt was functionally retarded when it came to programming
- After a couple years of building and maintaining voat, atko decided to leave
- My assumption about Atko's leaving is due to Putt, because Putt was a greedy bastard
- After Atko left Voat, things got weird. The remainin admin (Putt) began interacting with the community less and less
- Weird voat outages without explanation.
- Without Atko the site was stuck in limbo, no more updates
- Voat hits "money issues"
- Putt goes around trying to suck off VC's for money
- Putt gets increasingly andry at the community because their content makes it near-impossible to get a VC to back the site
- Putt eventually secures VC money for himself.
- Putt gets even angrier at the community because of the VC, starts lashing out
- Putt almost entirely stops interacting with the community, except to make some long melodramatic announcement post talking about how difficult the life of an admin is
- Most voat users left at this point
- Voat slowly dies
- Putt blames everyone but himself
- The end
Putt was a gay kike.
TLDR:
A sudo-kike fucked over the users that made him rich on Christmas.
To add to this, the VC that funded Voat for awhile was Private Internet Access (PIA). They cut all funding at one point, and did so in a manner which was at least bad faith if not outright breach of contract. Putt did nothing about this until the site ran out of funds.
Lol this is wrong
Site was peaking out at the end and you never mentioned Q’s official arrival to the forum and how an intel agency obviously took the site over at this point ending the dos attacks until about a year or so later inside job dos attacks started happening.
I'm not sure I agree on the slowly dying part. As I remember it, the shutdown was kind of a surprise, though it probably shouldn't have been, given how reluctant Putt was to do any merch sales beyond the first run.
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