Used to be a redditor, went to Voat after the Ellen Pao fiasco.
When I first went to voat, it was much like it is here. real news being discussed.
Then came the DDOSes, and the take down requests, THEN the first admin "suddenly" decided he was "doing too much" and "voluntarily" stepped down from running the site and let and new "Admin" take over.
conveninently around the same time, racist sub reddits were banned and the ALL went to voat shouting racial slurs at the top of the lungs 24/7
A lot of these guys were outed as shills (ez to tell when you looked at their post history and frequency...nobody who has a job posts that much)
Unfortunately, the dammage was done, and new members stopped coming to the site after seeing all the "Racists" (shills) filling up the front page 24/7
Now the canary has finally died . . .of course the site was dead long before that.
A word of warning,
Don't let that happen here.
Used to be a redditor, went to Voat after the Ellen Pao fiasco.
When I first went to voat, it was much like it is here. real news being discussed.
Then came the DDOSes, and the take down requests, THEN the first admin "suddenly" decided he was "doing too much" and "voluntarily" stepped down from running the site and let and new "Admin" take over.
conveninently around the same time, racist sub reddits were banned and the ALL went to voat shouting racial slurs at the top of the lungs 24/7
A lot of these guys were outed as shills (ez to tell when you looked at their post history and frequency...nobody who has a job posts that much)
Unfortunately, the dammage was done, and new members stopped coming to the site after seeing all the "Racists" (shills) filling up the front page 24/7
Now the canary has finally died . . .of course the site was dead long before that.
A word of warning,
Don't let that happen here.
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