Their prize is that they scare off new people who want to find a good place, but see a million dumb posts. It makes the site a lot less attractive for someone coming for the first time, which is what some of the shills/bots want.
Yeah, I was never on voat, but I was on poal for a few weeks. GA was a polite alternative with real news and discussion. But there are tons of sites that have so many links they just seen kooky, and if I came to the site today for the first time, I probably wouldn't stay long enough to figure out how to block things, and just disregard the place entirely.
Their prize is that they scare off new people who want to find a good place, but see a million dumb posts. It makes the site a lot less attractive for someone coming for the first time, which is what some of the shills/bots want.
Yeah, I was never on voat, but I was on poal for a few weeks. GA was a polite alternative with real news and discussion. But there are tons of sites that have so many links they just seen kooky, and if I came to the site today for the first time, I probably wouldn't stay long enough to figure out how to block things, and just disregard the place entirely.