Oh lol, i didnt know you could already see who downvoted.
Tbh, i havent up or down voted for like 3 or 4 years after i got nixxed for suppoedly down voting to much 'Muh algorithm !!'- i always made sure it was one down vote max (to off topic/ spam posts) per 5 -10 up votes across the entire site for a day or what ever. So i quit down voting off topic/ spam even tho it was within TOS - then got nixxed again shortly after, for being accused of up voting other fake voat alt accounts (even asked for which accounts i up voted so i could avoid them in the future) when I was up voting across the entire site on posts or comments that i agreed with or resonated with me - many times i didnt even bother with whose account it were. Public disclaimer - both times my account was nixxed was during real time back and forth commenting with some admin but i really don't read anything into that, just a coincidence surely.
Was it Crensch? I could see that happening, as much as you love QStorm/QPatriots and Crensch owned those subs. I could easily envision some friction there.
I only upvote posts and comments I like. I stopped down voting altogether. I suppose if I was really, really pissed off, I might let one rip. I've issued 9 downvotes on POAL, none of them in the past year. When I discovered there were potential repercussions for overuse, I stopped.
QStorm/QPatriots and Crensch owned those subs.
That's partially incorrect.
Crensch never owned QStorm.
He was promoted mod by the creator of the sub (who went MIA) and he abused his position to silence people who were posting Q related stuff in the sub. When confronted with Boobs and I in our mumble chat, he started to act like a prick and posted sticky post trying to stir drama (just like this post). He then demanded ownership of QStorm, claiming he had the credential of the creator of the sub (which he didn't or he would have made a fake transfer request).
So we eventually decided to remove him from the mod team of that sub because of his faggit powermod attitude. He created QPatriots and tried to divide the already shrinking QStorm userbase, flooding his new sub with posts to slide /all front page.
He then stopped moderating and let the sub being spammed with fakenews and ToS violation (calls to violence) and never replied to my PM reminding him of his responsibility as a owner/mod. So I decided to disable the sub.
He probably got assigned to a new cubicle mossad operation.
We'll that's info I've wondered about for a long time. Thanks for spelling it all out chronologically. He was one of the mods on VOAT, the /v/GreatAwakening and a few others ... led a lot of us over to POAL when VOAT was shutting down as you know. Sad to hear that it wasn't a clean departure.
I remember back when those anons were pushing for violence. I think I took a few months off POAL after that, when I came back QPatriots was shut down. I never knew exactly why, now I do. And the rest of the story.
There are also repercussions for up voting in TOS.
Upvoting (vote brigading) of 'fake voat/ alt accounts' (even if unknown to the up voting user - that's why a public list would be helpful to all users, esp new users with zero knowledge of existing users/ personalities of the site) gets the account 'algo-ed' and upvoting comments that promote, endorse or otherwise encourage things specifically deemed against TOS with also get the upvoting user account perma banned.
i just stay away from voting entirely - 'Le Voting is fake and ghey anyway'.
No it wasn't Crensch - it was 'The admin'. Lol.
I think Crensch was owner and an admin right after the two subs were created. He spent a couple of months over here before the mass migration.
I would think AOU would want to help us to avoid those fake account landmines. Since he hasn't, I'll speculate he derives some useful user information from them. I'm sure he has some association mapping software which would make small interacting groups of users "pop" out to the eye.
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