Honest question for you and commenters. Do you know of ANY instance of a site that censors left leaning or even outright batshit crazy libtards? I have never seen it. I've only encountered censorship from centrist to far right but never seen it for those on the left.
I will admit I suffer from confirmation bias and may not have noticed lefties being censored.
I am not including things like user brigading / ganging up on people.....I'm talking admin level censorship / banning based on ideology, not bad behavior etc.
Very curious.
Honestly now that I think about it no I haven’t. I don’t think voat does it other than the hiding comments thing or the negative points restrictions.
Right but those are community / user applied, not by the admins. Libs are still free to create any subverse they want as long as not illegal. No shadowbans, no subverse bans. If they are respectful and not totally assholes, they can avoid the community / user applied censorship via downvoats for the most part.
You are probably right but I still disagree with the hiding comments at a certain downvote threshold thing.
Voat's censorship via popularity does just what you're talking about.
No it doesn't which is why I clarified.
If you have an unpopular opinion, yes you can be brigaded and downvoated until you can't post or comment much, true. But admins are not banning subs they don't like and libs are free to create whatever the fuck subverse they want and post whatever they want in it besides illegal stuff, without fear of being banned.
There is a huge difference between that and Reddit shadowbans, Youtube just plain taking down channels and Twitter suspending accounts.
Someone being downvoated to hell is more often than not earned. I've seen people get hammered for saying something unpopular, but not so much if they are saying it in a level headed, let's discuss, kind of way. But if someone goes on Voat and says alt righties are faggots, Hitler's an asshole, diversity is our strength - deal with it, they get what they deserve. Because they are drawing a line in the virtual sand, then daring someone to cross it. Much like the trolls we've had here on Poal.
But if someone goes on Voat and says alt righties are faggots, Hitler's an asshole, diversity is our strength - deal with it, they get what they deserve. Because they are drawing a line in the virtual sand, then daring someone to cross it. Much like the trolls we've had here on Poal.
This is just your own value judgement - people who you think are genuine become 'trolls' on the sites where the people you like aren't welcome, and vice versa. I don't care much about reddit - what it does is irrelevant to censorship on voat.
On sites like reddit, one must not only contend with libtard dogpiles ("censorship via popularity" ala downvoting) but with mods attacking as well...a double whammy.
Whether "reddit does it better" is irrelevant - Voat censors unpopular users.
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