Reddit is now flagging content it deems as policy breaking. People who upvote this content face having their accounts suspended. Imagine mandating literal thoughtcrime.

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Lmao, Voat took the complete opposite route of you and d3rr and it ruined their site. They were a duo too; Atko was one of two owners, after he left Voat went to shit, fast. An "Angel Investor" who would not be named came into the picture like a vulture as soon as Atko left.

Their "transparency" policy went out the window when that happened.

[–]magnora7 13 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Yup we've tried very hard to learn from voat's mistakes, because they were supposed to be the chosen one that would save us from reddit and instead it got hijacked by extremists. That's why we initially named the site "antiextremes.com", in reference to avoiding the extremes of both reddit (censorship) and voat (letting extremists take over). It's worked out well so far, especially since our finances are balanced. Voat has $6k/mo in Azure licensing fees alone, before any server or domain costs. That programming choice ended up creating financial conditions that eventually cost them control of the site. Our low costs will keep us from needing that "angel investor" which ensures we can keep going in the direction we've been going for a long time to come.

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Yet the extremes among us - myself included, are here - and have been here. I think the key good design decision you guys implemented that makes this platform fundamentally superior is the lack of downvotes.

It means if you express an unpopular opinion 2 people agree with, and 100 people disagree with - you're sitting at 3, not -97 (suppressed comment). Karma as used on reddit and voat are censorship mechanics. Here it's "Funny" or "Insightful" - not "I disagree, be buried".