Thank you for the welcome!

After looking around a bit, it seems I over-estimated saidit's commitment to free speech. Trying to raise the quality of online conversations seems neat, and I like the voting scheme, but it seems inaccurate to me to represent this as a place that takes free speech that seriously. The "dragging discussion down the pyramid of debate" seems open to removing people for disagreement, and does seem to limit a lot of forms of legitimate human interaction, to me.

I also feel uncomfortable with one of the creator's characterization of voat as a cesspit of some sort of racist whatever. I liked voat when I used to lurk and I was sad when I couldn't get information from my favorite subs there anymore. And it wasn't because I was some "crazy extremist," it was because it was one of the few places I felt I could actually get information and unapologetically white-positive content in an environment that seems saturated by what now looks to me like extreme anti-white-ism. Could voat be better? Sure, most things could. I do feel the characterization of voat as some sort of useless bizarre extreme is not really accurate, though.

And I'm not sure whether you'd think it's a positive or negative, but there are indeed ideas that are not allowed here.