Reddit (itself!) is sabotaging Voat. ( conspiracy )

submitted by Calorie-Kin

It would make a lot of sense. We know it's admins are unprofessional , then add in the fact that Reddit itself is a business, they're interested in making money and right now they're practically a monopoly on media aggregation. Along comes Voat, a threat to Reddit. Since this is the internet, and no one can prove you've done anything - they can do anything they like anonymously.

The PayPal ordeal, the hosteurope.de one, they've all received complains about CP and illegal activity and so far it's all been attributed to SJWs and trolls but what if it's Reddit's own admins who are behind this? They're the only ones (AFAIK) who have anything to gain from it (financially). Hell, some of it's admins and mods are known SJWs who would delete any posts regarding GamerGate. We know what they're capable of, so it's not that far out to assume they're behind this somehow.

Calorie-Kin

Reddit sees it's users as squirrels - creatures with short attention spans. "Don't be silly, you won't quit Reddit because FPH was banned. Now shut up and check out this funny post."

ghotioninabarrel

Do they need to? They already have a legion of trolls and SJWs in the SRS subs, they can just let them loose and step back. No need to ge their hands dirty directly.

000cccpcharm

apparently we're not supposed to say "bad things" about peoples races, so I'll paint with a broader brush, you humans are idiots, all of you.....you people actually fall for this crap, or is a bunch of you making it seem that way, either way, just keep on consuming and breeding

tinfoiltex

Shutting down a subreddit gives the member an opportunity to reform if their account hasn't been banned. Reform for the subreddit, as you point out, is certainly out of the question when it is closed with no prior notice.

Have an upgoat for a good discussion.

fleas

so far it's all been attributed to SJWs and trolls but what if it's Reddit's own admins who are behind this

Can you explain the difference. Pretty sure the admins are a subset of sjws and trolls

Stavon

The opposite is true, reddit wants some of its users to leave the site.

The ones trying to harm voat are likely reddit users or subreddit admins but not reddit itself.

000cccpcharm

give the man a prize! in "physiological manipulations " of stupid people....haha, so funny, all you tv watchers.....you get all these people on facebook posting about "killer cops" and how horrible they are, cause tv showed em to ya, then a couple of days later we have a "white false flag killing" with a convenient 29, mil hush money payout, and then the cry for "getting kid of the guns, and how many more times" from the same group of people who apparently would like the police to be the only ones with guns, the same police they were just complaining about....redit and voat are controlled by the same company....it's called the millitary

polkadotgirl

I was thinking this. They are a new facebook. They don't need to appeal to everybody - they just need to appeal to the majority.

HitlerIsBlack

They might want people to leave Reddit, but they definitely don't want them going to a competitor.

Stavon

They don't think of voat as a competitor, they see it as a circlejerk of the worst of the worst.

And IMO it is not a competitor, reddid has the same userbase as facebook, that's the competitor; or maybe tumblr.

HitlerIsBlack

I bet that's how Blockbuster felt about Netflix when it turned down the opportunity to buy them out. If Reddit was youtube, would Voat be Liveleak? Maybe not yet but Voat has potential.

Stavon

I know, but I don't think reddit is aware of that. They probably look at the user counts and decide to ignore voat.

tinfoiltex

I don't think Reddit wants nonconforming users to leave the site. They want nonconforming users to conform .

errihu

Maybe, but they can make themselves look even more legitimate by making sure that all the socially unacceptably nonconformist people are concentrated in one place that isn't them. They would have a motivation to keep Voat around and marginalized - never gaining a critical mass or rising enough to become a true concern or competition. Reddit only got as big as it did because it could afford servers and bandwidth. Attacking Voat's server agreements and funding access doesn't destroy Voat outright, but limits how large it can get, ultimately. Limiting its size limits its social penetration, that is, how much damage it can do to the status quo; marginalizing it as a place where racists and bigots and pedophiles hangs out even further limits that penetration and adds a disincentive to joining and participating. Thus, Voat can still exist, it just can't ever gain traction amongst the general public.