It still has a lot of participating users, according to voting counts, but I can't imagine they are getting any new blood - or very little. I'd guess it's like any other locked out site, it generally just starts to get more and more toxic as it echoes itself over time, and any time someone new does try to come in or add a different opinion, the users jump on it like ants on sugar.
Who knows if those votes are real.
As for the site itself, after the DDOS attacks stopped the site was still near unusable, and on lockdown. I don't even have a guess as to why that is, why the admins seem absent. Someone is still paying the bills, but who that is...no idea.
That user Mumbleberry is so angry about my criticism of him that he downvotes everything I post on Voat and Phuks.
Notice the single downvote on everything I post? That's him.
He also tried his luck on Poal, but its spearvoting protection filtered his votes.
That name actually sounds familiar for some reason.
Imagine there's like a dozen legit users, and all the rest are sock puppets owned by one or a couple of maniacs... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id6nCa_OTEM
Scaryshit...
That's some pretty interesting symbolism.
Yeah
Someone suggested here, I don't remember who, I think it was @GetCynical, that maybe, voat has turned into an "opposition containment" site, by way of circumstances
It would fitI guess, I mean the gated/forced login part makes little sense to me, that's like why are you even doing that? What's the point? You have to register to know what's in it?It's bizarre, especially when you consider that the so called DDoS attacks have stopped, and there are other ways to stop them btw
I guess the point is to control, as usual, it's all about control when it comes to politics, and computers in general, administration, mass surveillance and all that, computer things are designed to control "things" to begin with, any things, but I digress
Yeah the "opposition containment" concept makes kind of sense when it comes to voat's history
Is the canary even updated these days?
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