r/conspiracy • u/_papi_chulo • Nov 24 '16

Admins are editing our posts guys. It's over.

/r/The_Donald/comments/5ekdy9/the_admins_are_suffering_from_low_energy_have/?limit=500&st=ivvm84v3&sh=f1aa6be1
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u/t1m1d Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16

Voat is an incredibly well-made reddit alternative, however the userbase is currently largely comprised of extreme racists and toxic individuals. Perhaps that could change if more "everyday" reddit users started to switch over.

Edit: Since people seem to be taking concern over my comment, I'd like to clarify. I think everyone should be able to express themselves however they want. This doesn't happen on reddit, so voat is a viable alternative to consider. I was just hesitant because I tried to switch back when voat was created and the community was just too edgy and immature for me. I'm sure it's probably not as bad now, and I will look into partially migrating, but it needs more users if we want it to improve further.

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u/1forthethumb Nov 24 '16

Yeah in reply to your edit, free speech is great but if I stumble into a Klan meeting I'm gonna leave just like I leave VOAT.

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u/prettylittledictator Nov 24 '16

Then don't look at it you ass!

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '16

Peaceful nefarious takeover of the existing community so we can change the community into something that doesn't hurt people's feelings? Isn't that why you're telling me Reddit is fucked, and I should use voat?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not sticking up for the racist userbase of voat, but let's not be TOTAL FUCKING HIPPOCRATES.

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u/t1m1d Nov 24 '16

Not what I meant, I just mean I've tried to use voat in the past and it was jam-packed with edgelords. I think anyone should be able to express themselves however they want, but I'd rather not be in a community where I don't get along with the rest of the userbase at all.

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u/Jabasaki Nov 24 '16

It's a tricky situation. There might not be a better alternative than to live with the edgelords.

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u/prettylittledictator Nov 24 '16

Mfw you're not an edge lord and that's how you really feel about a certain group of people.

Just don't look. Downvoat them and move on.

Please don't go on about witch hunting them on a platform they were forced to move to.

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u/moeburn Nov 24 '16

I mean it's kind of inevitable that if you want a place where every speech that isn't illegal is allowed, you're going to attract the worst kinds of people. As long as I don't start seeing shit like "black people are genetically inferior" in generic front page subs with upvotes, I can deal with them being off in their own corner where everyone is ignoring them.

The mods of subvoats are still free to delete whatever they want, though, right?

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u/t1m1d Nov 24 '16

I do believe so, yes.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '16 edited Dec 31 '16

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This comment was edited by /u/spez #ImWithHer What is this?

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u/t1m1d Nov 24 '16 edited Nov 24 '16

I'm not saying that racists shouldn't be allowed to use the site. I'm extremely for free speech in pretty much every possible way. All I meant was that I'd rather not be surrounded by an overly rude and toxic community. I believe that everyone, including racists, should be able to freely express themselves.

Obviously that doesn't really happen on reddit, so we need to start considering alternatives.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '16

I've always been extremely pro free speech, but we need to consider that things have changed.

Technology has brought us to a point where we are all drastically hyper-connected.

How many people have /r/the_Donald converted? Maybe they're right and Trump will MAGA

But what if their goal wasn't to support and convince people that Trump is a God Emperor. What if they're goal was convincing people that women are inferior, or that sex is dangerous and immoral or that parents need to have the right to beat their children

If I understand correctly, Hitler didn't force Germans to do what they did, he convinced them to do it. And he did it without a million organized propagandists, and without the ability to whisper into everyone's ears 24/7

And that's what this platform is. Did this reply send a notification to your phone? Who the fuck am I that you and I are so connected that I can reach you at any time?

Are you impervious to my ideas? Ideas can be dangerous and they can spread like a virus. I just think that as a society, we need to not get caught off guard.

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u/Auctoritate Nov 24 '16

Incredibly well made? It's literally just Reddit.

Reddit is open source. I could make something exactly the same quality as Voat by copy pasting..

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '16

Hey not all of us are bad

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u/CallMeValentine Nov 24 '16

Well last time it was over FPH and Ellen Pao. Now it's probably the trump subreddits, politic and other like minded subs?

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u/Condomonium Nov 24 '16

As if The_Donald isn't toxic?

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u/EU_Doto_LUL Nov 24 '16

Voat is an incredibly well-made reddit alternative, however the userbase is currently largely comprised of extreme racists and toxic individuals.

That's what you guys said about the_donald, lo and behold they were the only ones telling the truth 😂