You spoke, we listened! Everyone, please welcome High-Valerian and God_Bless_America1 to the mod team! You old Voat Goats might remember High-Valerian as a mod from /v/GreatAwakening. Welcome!
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Honest question. Q openly advocated support to create /QRV on Voat while /Greatawakening already existed. Why would Q not support /Greatawakening? What are we missing here?
Don't really know, but QRV became a shotstorm while GreatAwakening morphed into a Shill-free, solid information distribution site, thanks to mods like Crensch and Moloch Hunter
I looked at both every day and both had plenty of shills. Using logic though, shills attack what they fear most. Why were they attacking QRV more than Greatawakening?
Was Greatawakening compromised and didn't need as many shills? QRV was also anonymous and people couldn't be banned.
I think it was to spread. It was beginning to be an echo chamber. Mostly bad posts with a lot of shills. Nothing crazy but definitely seems like a good idea in hindsight.
Each to his own I guess.
I used to frequent both, but just found GA essentially friendlier, high quality (in my view) and less draining on the investment. That said, I never relied to heavily on Voat for info that much, although in the months leading up to Nov 3, GA became my first port of call.
I know there is advantages to there being both (anonymous and semi-anonymous posting) and I'm not saying the real anon quality didn;'t come thru QRV, but in my view, it was a little too close to the chans (kun) for what I was after.
I think, as time went on, GA eventually had more traffic PLUS more concentration of quality posts than QRV, but maybe that's just my bias...
I think the way the mods there handled it was masterful, and I am strongly supportive of that approach, particularly IF there are alternatives for those that want the chaos etc of QRV.
I don't think it's a binary equation. Variety is advantageous. However, I personally appreciate the approach taken on GA.
Because they COULD. And when the tone of the place dives, you have to know that it drives certain sectors of participants away. Some love it, but others move on because it just doesn't leave any real space for them.
Notice Cats5 & mods outline for GAW. How many will really hold to that, take it seriously? Lots I hope. But building a forum means creating a community and culture that serves and upholds the objective of that forum. That takes work, effort, imo.
You said it better than I could . Though the mods on QRV and GA too two different actions. (before coffee)
Because Q only pointed to one.
They weren't attacking QRV more than GA. The mods at GA worked their butts off to weed out the shills and trolls by eventually requiring that new posters request to be added to keep the site manageable and they did. QRV on the other hand, kept the free speech principle and was not using user names in their subverse - making it more difficult for trouble makers to target individual posters/accounts for coordinated waves of crap from other subverses that were non Q.
I used both.
Was GA compromised? No. It was targeted more easily by Non Q subverses because it was semi anonymous vs QRV's totally anonymous posting/thread style.