it has basically become 4chan with reputations, where the most vile things get voted to the top. I made an account on here just incase voat went down and never came back up, and saved archives of my own subs incase i ever wanted to recreate them over here. I agree with your assesment, with the influx of users at voat, the level of shit has risen to where i can't find interesting stuff without sifting through crap i have no interest in. Its nearly as bad as browsing through 4chan or infinity chan. Atleast funny junk has decent sorting tools to help sift through the shit. But on poal, the volume of stuff is low enough its easy to glance over a single page of /new and keep up with most things posted. Reddit/voat, no point, its gone in seconds/minutes respectivly. Its that small site feel that i like about this site.