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Re: Voat Is Shutting Down

#31

Post by gerdesj »

"It’s embarrassing but it’s true, I just can’t keep it up. I’ve tried meditation, I’ve tried prayer, I’ve tried reaching out for help. Some solutions worked for a little while but nothing has remedied the underlying issue. No matter what I do, I simply just can’t keep it up. I expect most will be disappointed and let down, while others will just point and laugh. So be it, it’s a problem every man like me will face at some point."

I know absolutely nothing about voat but the bow out post is well written and heartfelt.

Clearly the intention was for something better but the piranhas and xChan int al turned up. The funny thing about free speech is it needs to be policed.

soz/lol etc

Re: Voat Is Shutting Down

#32

Post by throwaway0a5e »

herbstein wrote: post #10
superkuh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There were corners of it that were decent in terms of content and tone. Particularly v/justgrowit which was about gardening. But yeah, for every polite person in some isolated corner there were 50 screaming about politics on the front page. But that wasn't the problem with Voat. The problem with Voat was the terrible code making the site non-functional. You literally couldn't submit a URL which had a tilda in it. A t…

> But yeah, for every polite person in some isolated corner there were 50 screaming about politics on the front page. The problem with Voat wasn't that some people were "talking politics" on the front page. The problem was that the vast majority where anti-semites, racists, and otherwise horrible. That's beyond "talking politics" in any decent sense of the phrase.

The default advice for Reddit is "just unsubscribe from all the defaults because they're full of toxic assholes" so I don't see why the same measure wouldn't apply to Voat or 4Chan.

Re: Voat Is Shutting Down

#33

Post by herbstein »

throwaway0a5e wrote: post #32
herbstein wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But yeah, for every polite person in some isolated corner there were 50 screaming about politics on the front page. The problem with Voat wasn't that some people were "talking politics" on the front page. The problem was that the vast majority where anti-semites, racists, and otherwise horrible. That's beyond "talking politics" in any decent sense of the phrase.

The default advice for Reddit is "just unsubscribe from all the defaults because they're full of toxic assholes" so I don't see why the same measure wouldn't apply to Voat or 4Chan.

There's the toxicity on Reddit on one hand, and then there's the "Hitler was right", casual usage of racial slurs, and insinuations that "jews are trying to stifle Voat" on the other hand.

In the linked post you'll see references to "Angel", an anonymous individual that was funding Voat up until - apparently - March of this year. The comments refer to this individual, in a negative light, surrounded by both three parenthesis and the star of David.

In other words, the level of toxicity is on a completely different level.

Re: Voat Is Shutting Down

#34

Post by mey »

jpxw wrote: post #29

3 comments in and I see a racial slur. 8 comments and I see “Hitler was right”. Both comments massively upvoted. The optics on Voat are not the best, are they...

Not sure that is optics, more that is just the shape of the community on there.

Re: Voat Is Shutting Down

#35

Post by Kequc »

flukus wrote: post #3

At the time of posting the front page of voat has the following threads: A moment of silence for all the FBI glowniggers that just got laid off. - https://voat.co/v/funny/4170215 If you go back to Reddit, you're a double niggerkike - https://voat.co/v/whatever/4170129 Plus a whole lot of misinformation and other crazy mixed in with comments that make youtube look like a bastion of intellectualism. It doesn't look lik…

Banning people from speaking doesn't change their mind. Every single tech site baffled.

Re: Voat Is Shutting Down

#36

Post by StavrosK »

gerdesj wrote: post #31

"It’s embarrassing but it’s true, I just can’t keep it up. I’ve tried meditation, I’ve tried prayer, I’ve tried reaching out for help. Some solutions worked for a little while but nothing has remedied the underlying issue. No matter what I do, I simply just can’t keep it up. I expect most will be disappointed and let down, while others will just point and laugh. So be it, it’s a problem every man like me will face at…

That's actually a thinly veiled erectile dysfunction double entendre.

Re: Voat Is Shutting Down

#38

Post by excitedleigh »

gerdesj wrote: post #31

"It’s embarrassing but it’s true, I just can’t keep it up. I’ve tried meditation, I’ve tried prayer, I’ve tried reaching out for help. Some solutions worked for a little while but nothing has remedied the underlying issue. No matter what I do, I simply just can’t keep it up. I expect most will be disappointed and let down, while others will just point and laugh. So be it, it’s a problem every man like me will face at…

idk, the first three paras are pretty clearly an erectile dysfunction joke. It continues:

> One thing is true though, while I kept it up, it was glorious in many ways. It was the hardest[…], it was the biggest[…], it was bulging[…], it was throbbing[…]. It’s so great in so many ways that it has a list of haters who will be extremely aroused by this post.

> I know I’m going to get a hundred PMs from all of Voat’s hottest girls (Voat has some hot women, fact) with tips and tricks on how to help me keep it up. […]

Re: Voat Is Shutting Down

#39

Post by throwaway0a5e »

herbstein wrote: post #33
throwaway0a5e wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The default advice for Reddit is "just unsubscribe from all the defaults because they're full of toxic assholes" so I don't see why the same measure wouldn't apply to Voat or 4Chan.

There's the toxicity on Reddit on one hand, and then there's the "Hitler was right", casual usage of racial slurs, and insinuations that "jews are trying to stifle Voat" on the other hand. In the linked post you'll see references to "Angel", an anonymous individual that was funding Voat up until - apparently - March of this year. The comments refer to this individual, in a negative light, surrounded by both three par…

Reddit attacks people if they don't have just the right amount of left leaning beliefs for the occasion.

4Chan basically requires you to prefix and postfix all your nouns with certain slurs.

People are mostly the same all over so I assume like 90% of the stupid crap you see on Voat or anywhere else is just people trying to virtue signal to each other and they don't honestly believe that garbage (even HN has its own brand of this) and only a minority of users honestly believe what they type. People are very good at fitting in.

Sure, it looks bad if Reddit is your frame of reference but if 4Chan is your frame of reference then it's just the same old layer of garbage on top of whatever content you're actually there for.

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