Another funny thing I realized. When Voat goes invite only and bans for vote manipulation, only people with alts can contest the bans.
Other people noticed that, I'm using my backdoor PM powers to talk to folks that I had in my PMs and it's actually making some waves I think, two mods from protect vote, another one of putt's builders, and others, Sguevar in particular made a post in protect voat protesting my ban and pinged a bunch of the users who had problems with the friday fuck-up, power users, and users close to putt, some people on alts even came out of the woodwork to bemoan the bans.
I don't presume to know if you ran alts or not but I do know that your name is the one most associated with bans, mine in particular, pretty much every one of theoldones detractors got banned for upvoting you; if I thought the ban system worked in the least I would guess that you had an alt or two and other people got swept in but I don't think for a second putt coded that system correctly considering how widespread warnings and bans were for regular users and how almost no problem users got taken out, I suspect we were all banned for upvoting you to compete with his alts and putt either likes TOO a whole lot or really fucked up the system he coded to find "inorganic activity".
Sguevar has been one of my favorite users since Madworld posted his research about suspicious news domains. It's not surprising to see him being honest and objective about the recent ban wave. I've only used one other account, game_maven, which I deleted long ago before creating Decidueye in order to prevent myself from being doxxed. While there's no doubt vote manipulation exists on Voat, the whole handling of the recent ban wave reeks. Around the time when Putt handed out the bans, he did say his first batch had errors and he rushed the fixed script out afterward. It's also hard to believe a user like Lakota_Pride, who's done nothing but positive in the Q subs, could be considered a destroyer.
I didn't figure you were the vote manipulating type, you honestly don't need to do that shit when you are a rational person with any sense of perspective.
Well it looks like I was just blown out, I'll share the last message I sent to Sguevar after madworld personally checked with putt on my behalf.
Quote system here ain't so hot
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MadWorld 1 points (+1|-0) 40 minutes ago
Just an update, @Obrez's ban was justified. Putt did double check.
I disagree but that's them saying "no appeal, no explanation"
Absolutely disappointing; as far as I can tell putt's unwillingness to say anything himself on the matter only confirms for me that this was personal to him.
https://voat .co/v/whatever/3242309/18832138
I know I've downvoted him for getting overly emotional as admin, especially when he was musing on a system to back up the twisted bullshit he now calls "builders and destroyers" but generally I was all pro putt, up until this turn into what ever has gotten into his head.
This will probably be the end of my time on voat, so one last thanks for trying, goodluck with what ever you try to do on this site from here on.
Maybe poal will get better as putt and his sycophants drive folks out, it's all the same problem of further dividing the group, putt's egoism in all of this is going to play a role in constipating the rightwing swing, the last thing we needed in the time of censorship was a little tyrant of our own.
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