I think it got ideologically subverted around that era, by means of radicalization through upvote/downvote brigading, the entire board fell for it, pretty much At one point it was either you repeat the party line like a drone or you get downvoted to oblivion. Me I didn't care much I had something like 10000 points, you could start downvoting me in january and you would still be at it in december, so most just gave on up right away but for newfags it was sad to watch, no diverging opinion allowed, no debate, you had to be more hitler than hitler or else... That's when voat became dumb, pointless, a big ass echo chamber nothing more It was around the unite the right rally, which ended up into a political disaster https://youtu.be/5F2kPRW6ZuA why not burn crosses also while we're at it? So the picture is complete. Then, after the fall of voat, voatards came here en masse en tried to takeover the board, open hostile takeover, by using the same playbook Didn't work