Voat is a cesspool | Poal: Say what you want.

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Eh, just let Voat be Voat.

We are all learning valuable life lessons from shit going down.

I'm sure we'll all be talking shit on Poal in five years, when it inevitably goes downhill.

So take a moment, step back, and realize that this shit is not site specific. It is intrinsic to human organizational dynamics.

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People buy sites and when they get administrative control, they invent new "old users" who then dominate the site. People you never saw before with five year old accounts? That's the new owners. Might be FBI, might be Conde Nast, whoever. That's been the standard MO since the late 90s.

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I feel the same way. Summer is just around the corner, maybe everybody stopped talking about going off the grid and actually did it

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Naw, trust me, smaller is better.

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I'd add, re my other comment, that the only other differentiator may be in management, and not letting things go too far down the shit show path. Things may be a bit too pedantic here in that regard at the moment, or not. But it's far easier to lighten up gradually, than to impart necessary maturity in other people to keep things stable.

Better problems, easier solutions.

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Just post things and vote for things. First page will be good no one will care about the rest.

Originally for myself I just wanted election news, since reddit and rest of internet for that matter, were such a shit show in 2015. Eventually after election I finally made account and posted.

The only reason I was there was because of the content and discussion. I never noticed the names, honestly for a long time. I certainly wasn't there for its own version of a shit show or to "enjoy" reddit lifestyle drama.

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I'm sure we'll all be talking shit on Poal in five years, when it inevitably goes downhill.

Take it from a geezer who's been around the block a time or two: you can count on it. Always. Four to five years, max. FreeRepublic to LibertyPost. Digg to reddit. Every single one. Always. At least some of them don't start out sucking from the get go, so you can get something interesting for a while.