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.