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[–] • 6 pts

They drive out contributors and content creators

[–] • 5 pts

that would explain the crap i received when i was aggressive in posting breaking news / unverified stories. if it was bullshit, it would be called out and die very quickly. Snipe a story from /rising and if it turns out to be true, it gets to the front page of voat before it reaches the front page of reddit (/r/the_donald) and i got called a shill for sniping the story. i may have done this for a few weeks, and had consistent front page posts during this time (atleast one, often 2 or 3, one time 4) and no one figured out i was sniping reddit stories.

They just assumed i was paying for every upvote i received or had hundreds of accounts just to vote it to the front. Truth was i just picked news stories that sounded like something vote would like, aka right wing and paint the left/democrats as evil as possible, and low and behold, vote upvotes it like no tomorrow. the crap was kinda thick and only stopped when i stopped submitting as often. voat often falls ranged about a day plus or minus with a current event being posted about, 4chan shit goes live the second it happens, reddit hears about it from 4chan from anyone who crossposts it. voat can be early or completely miss the party. lately they've missed it consistently.

[–] [deleted] • 5 pts

Any else think all the "civil war now" talk is just shills?

[–] • 4 pts

for sure... if Voat is a honeypot what better kind of data to gather than sentiment about unrest, civil war, and violence?

https://poal.co/s/meanwhileofvoat/7122

buttas4evah always doing this shit, today: https://voat .co/v/Identitarians/2623569

[–] • 2 pts

a thought just occured to me:

They spam this site with spam, which provokes people to down vote it. The spam has been increasing, the more they spam the more the users down vote. Down votes are limited, this is an attack on the limit of down votes by attempting to deplete everyone's capacity to down vote. With new account creation, and nearly daily spam attacks, this is depleting the down vote capacity on a regular basis.

The goal would seem to be once the down votes are depleted, they can argue their posts are not spam because they are not heavily down voted like they are now. As for what they would ask to change, I have no idea, but this seems to be their attack vector.

[–] • 2 pts

That's a good observation. The motive checks out. some good poalerbear thinkin' ^ here