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Sup-

I just made an account here. Why? Because the admins of voat threw me under the bus to protect their precious Qtards. I never once broke the rules of the site, instead, I spent my valuable free time protecting the site by helping people identify and eliminate subversive shills (I also submitted a lot of solid original content). The moment I started going after "leaders" in the Qcrowd, those "leaders" lobbied the site admins and had me banned.

, without warning, notification, appeal, or explanation. None of the accounts affected by this are on the official site ban list. The site is also locked down, accepting zero new accounts. AND Over the years I have made 18 accounts on voat, most with no activity, none that ever violated site rules, and only 2 of them are not locked out... that's 16 locked out accounts. and

Here's what I think this means (I recognise that I could be wrong)...... They have figured out a way to purge the site of "undesirables" in a way that will make it impossible for them to come back on a new account, and so that no one else who uses the site will know that these purged users have been secretly banned. This would allow admins to regulate and censor activity on the site in ways that are not in keeping with the site's expressed ethos, without anyone on the site knowing.

Users, myself included, have attempted to contact admins about this, looking for answers, and have received no response... doesn't look good IMO.

So, I am here. And I expect there will be many more like me as this develops. I only hope the people running Poal don't also try to pull this sort of bullshit.

-draaaak

PS: this is xposted in s/whatever, as well as s/introductions.

Sup- I just made an account here. Why? Because the admins of voat threw me under the bus to protect their precious Qtards. I never once broke the rules of the site, instead, I spent my valuable free time protecting the site by helping people identify and eliminate subversive shills (I also submitted a lot of solid original content). The moment I started going after "leaders" in the Qcrowd, those "leaders" lobbied the site admins and had me banned. [Now they have started locking users out of their accounts for "security reasons"](https://i.imgtc.ws/1BWVdXr.png), without warning, notification, appeal, or explanation. None of the accounts affected by this are on the official site ban list. The site is also locked down, accepting zero new accounts. AND [they are quickly working on changing the site to be "invite only".](https://preview.voat.co/v/announcements/2721107) Over the years I have made 18 accounts on voat, most with no activity, none that ever violated site rules, and only 2 of them are not locked out... that's 16 locked out accounts. and [I'm not the only one experiencing this.](https://voat .co/v/whatever/3279889) Here's what I think this means (I recognise that I could be wrong)...... They have figured out a way to purge the site of "undesirables" in a way that will make it impossible for them to come back on a new account, and so that no one else who uses the site will know that these purged users have been secretly banned. This would allow admins to regulate and censor activity on the site in ways that are not in keeping with the site's expressed ethos, without anyone on the site knowing. Users, myself included, have attempted to contact admins about this, looking for answers, and have received no response... doesn't look good IMO. So, I am here. And I expect there will be many more like me as this develops. I only hope the people running Poal don't also try to pull this sort of bullshit. -draaaak PS: this is xposted in ~~s/whatever, as well as~~ s/introductions.

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Welcome to Poal.co, I am curious why you posted this three times.

[–] • 3 pts

Third time's the charm.

[–] • 2 pts

I felt like it was relevant to all 3 subs, as it is an introduction, it is about voat bullshit, and it is also kind of a whatever sort of thing.

[+] [deleted] • 1 pt
[–] • 1 pt

makes sense to me, good on your for thinking of it.

[–] • 2 pts

Welcome aboard! Settle down, find a stool, and ask pmyb2 or aou for a beer. Enjoy the ride.

[–] • 2 pts

At least you used of instead of on.

Welcome

[–] • 1 pt

Why are there two of these subs? "of" and "on"? And why is this the one to use?

TBH, I didn't even notice the "of" until just now, 4 days after you mentioned it lol

[–] • 0 pt

Of was made on accident and people just ran with it. On was made later but most of the older users use of if they post about voat

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

If your not using something to mask your IP address they will lock your other accounts if they find them suspicious like duplicates which they were.

[–] • 2 pts

False but good try. you probably need to look a little deeper.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

I meant on Voat not here. I used to on Zophars Domain a list of users and I could sort the list as a moderator by IP address so I could see who was using a bunch of the same IP's. I'd let the cool users get away with it but the trouble makers I'd warn or disable one of the accounts usually the one they trolled with but leave a normal one. I'd also send them a PM telling them I was watching them and I didn't want to ban them but if they kept it up they were gone. I let a lot of them get away with a ton of stupid stuff and I banned like 3 people in 2 years. I left when I got shit for saying the trans operation one of the users was getting was just a permanent halloween costume. This was well before the bullshit of today started, maybe 2010 or 2008. I had and still have a huge amount of posts, I had the second highest on the site last I checked.

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Voat is banning IPs news to me.

[–] • 1 pt

the trans operation one of the users was getting was just a permanent halloween costume

I appreciate this.

[–] • 0 pt

No, that's not it. My accounts have different names.

[–] • 0 pt

Maybe it's you?

Did you ever consider that toxic users are bad for a site, and don't generate revenue?

[–] • -1 pt

OP came to his senses about voat's bullshit. I don't think you indirectly calling him a toxic user is helpful. He deserves the benefit of the doubt.

[–] • 0 pt

Maybe the q peeps have some kind of value for the ads but yes that sounds quite plausable and I have seen this type of purge and fuckery on 2 other platforms this year.

[–] • 1 pt

They're largely dumb NPC boomers, so yes, ads will definitely work on them. What 2 other platforms did you see this on?