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[–]probgoingtohell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I needed to vent.

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Right on, Voat has that effect. Like saidit, I mostly used it to lurk the Linux, software, and tech forums for interesting tools that I read about but rarely get around to using. I left it when they wouldn't ban the 'I love fucking underage girls' trolls and never looked back. When saidit has to start banning the subs I like here, like this one, I leave it too and likewise never look back. When a site stops being useful, I just abandon it.

[–]antireddit 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I left it when they wouldn't ban the 'I love fucking underage girls' trolls and never looked back

I've never been to Voat, but some of the trolls you speak of were probably Jewish/far left trolls trying to get the place shut down. Apparently posting underage porn was a favored tactic of Reddit's AHS crowd when all other tactics failed to get a sub banned. I believe they were caught red handed doing it.

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I agree. The trend I've seen with multi-topic social media forums like Saidit, Voat, Reddit, Poal and others, is that they are useful or entertaining for a while, then are attacked and degraded by trolls, shills, and corruptors. By now I just add the websites that I like from user posts to my homepage, and monitor thosr pages on my own as I abandon the latest degraded forum.