And Voat did go to shit. @Astfgl is spot-on about that assessment. Their highly vaunted immune system developed an auto-immune disease, driving off most good users that posted unique content who were there before the hazers signed up. Now it's become cesspit made up of larping trolls, dramatic morons, a dumping grounds for Qult, and some good users who haven't found a better free speech alternative.
Kind of like what's happening at saidit, the admins have such a tight reign they drive people away
I'm not sure I agree with you entirely.
Voat went to shit because the owner doesn't know to, can't be bothered with, or got into so much trouble for, managing the site.
If voat didn't keep going down, it would be OK.
Don’t forget about SBBH and how many subs they’ve destroyed under the guise of protecting Voat. Most drama there is caused by the soap boxers and doxxers. They drove off many great users and almost all niche content needed to organically grow a community.
I actually didn't follow any of that drama. At all. So I have no idea what it was about.
The only "protection" I saw of voat was people calling each other nigger faggot kikes, and seeing who stayed. Also this one guy that kept pasting a huge text wall full of links, and another guy that followed him everywhere pointing out that many were wrong and to stick to strict facts.
Either way, now that it's possible to see who downvoted a post, I think that it'll severely limit their ability to do whatever they were doing before.
He was FBI'ed into what he did or didn't do.
But it do.
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