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First and foremost I'd like it to be known that I do not like having to do this kind of thing. However in the interest of protecting the site from bad actors that seem to have unlimited time but no time to have a discussion about how to behave here. My hope is that this will lead to a discussion and a real solution to the behavior that has been causing problems here on poal.co. @Hanswormhat I genuinely tried to reason with you without resorting to using admin abilities, and your behavior is at this point just abusive. I genuinely regret its come to this.

The straw that broke the camels back is the abusive comments on almost every post. This in my view is attempting to discourage people from speaking and is attempting to use his speech to silence others. This is not acceptable and is not ban worthy but I'm not going to let it continue until a agreement can be reached.

I have not had to take this kind of action in almost a year and I'm very happy I can say that. I don't do it lightly or without a considerable amount of thought.

As always if you think I have made a mistake please call me out on it.

First and foremost I'd like it to be known that I do not like having to do this kind of thing. However in the interest of protecting the site from bad actors that seem to have unlimited time but no time to have a discussion about how to behave here. My hope is that this will lead to a discussion and a real solution to the behavior that has been causing problems here on poal.co. @Hanswormhat I genuinely tried to reason with you without resorting to using admin abilities, and your behavior is at this point just abusive. I genuinely regret its come to this. The straw that broke the camels back is the abusive comments on almost every post. This in my view is attempting to discourage people from speaking and is attempting to use his speech to silence others. This is not acceptable and is not ban worthy but I'm not going to let it continue until a agreement can be reached. I have not had to take this kind of action in almost a year and I'm very happy I can say that. I don't do it lightly or without a considerable amount of thought. As always if you think I have made a mistake please call me out on it.

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[–] [deleted] • 8 pts

However there are people that come here looking for a ban to prove this place doesn't have free speech

He didn't just voice a controversial opinion or argument - he made accusations against others. Accusing them to be transgender and furthermore to lie about it.

To me the point of valuing free speech is to have people voice opinions and arguments even if controversial. Not to make unreasonable accusations.

And not just one or two accusations but dozens per day and hundreds overall. In the process drowning the voices and content of others who do not spam theirs.

And even if it weren't accusations I think the sheer volume of content he posted was abusive. I think he demonstrated quite well why voat has a point with restricting the amount of submissions for new and highly downvoted accounts. It allows the community to regulate this behavior while still giving a user the option to post their content.

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I'm a Voat mod and yes that's why we have those restrictions and why we couldn't back down on the rate limiting when the Admin/Owner was looking at doing so.

Voat's been hit with a couple waves of whole groups pulling this kind of garbage. At one point anonymous subs were event set up to harass users via @ posts.

I have a decent size block list. I flat out tell people, I'm done with this so welcome to my block list. By personally blocking them I've never had to block anyone from the subs I mod/own in the four+ years I've been on Voat. Because the people doing spamming realize they're wasting their time because other top users will also block them.