Why?
Even though the management does not directly censor, various groups on Voat appear to do so on their own.
Censorship by sponsored proxy is still Censorship.
It is the same as reddit, if you don't agree with the group think prepare to get downvoted.
It is understandable to a point that a forum is going to take on an identity, hopefully Poal will continue to be one where people can respectfully disagree.
I'll fight to keep it that way until there isn't any fight left in me.
I'm not going to lie, i kinda do miss the disrespectful aspect of disagreeing on Voat.
Not that I would ever advocate it here, I love this place and it's culture, but I do miss mindlessly yelling at people and calling them faggots.
That happens everywhere. I remember my first post into an Anime fanboi site. Got so many downs from the fans of the top-poster that I had to abandon the account.
This is an issue I've spent a great amount of time trying to address. Like at this points its multiple thousands of hours. I cannot even quantify the mental anguish I've spent on it. I still don't have a complete answer I try everyday to tread that line and its not as easy of one to tread as you would think. I started this thinking it would be easy and it fucking is not even close to easy.
The answer is when you see someone trying to use their voice to censor an opinion you can either let them shout them down or you can step in. When its right or wrong to do that is a hard call to make.
I can understand the frustration. I'm unwilling to doxx myself but I have a reasonable amount of experience with this problem that spans a long period of time on the Internet.
The problem with Voat appears to be almost zero involvement from management directly, which allows various groups to organize and fill the proverbial "power vacuum". To the uninformed passer-by, this can be misconstrued in many ways - such as silent approval of their activities. It's certainly a unique catch-22, but one that I see going outright ignored by Voat.
At this point, it's pretty clear to me that Putt has gone Galt and moved onto other things, I can't say I blame him.
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