Crazy, isn't it? I was sitting here thinking about last Christmas, and remember saying my last goodbyes on VOAT, waiting for the plug to get pulled, and catching a few stragglers who were just getting word of the imminent demise of the place.
Bittersweet...sure going differently than expected. Didn’t a Q post say that the “Ending wasn’t for everybody”...or something like that? Was he referring to the vax deaths? That the ending would not be for those who took the shot?
That could mean several different things, one is what you said, they won't be here for the ending or it will be too painful for those of us watching to look, some of us will have to turn away.
I was very early to CBTS and was quite sad when that ended. But I'm sorry, my memories differ from many about QRV. There is no way things were able to be discussed without being totally chewed out as a moron by some old goat that wasn't necessary. The WIN board is by far the best all around place for discussion of lots of topics centered around Q without fearing a major backlash for not getting something quite right.
QRV was the wild west. The 2 Great Awakening boards were a little more like this place - a lot of the same QRV research with just enough moderation to keep the shills in check, and quite a few Goats that pushed back on the ornery ones - reminding them that everyone starts somewhere and we all have something to learn from each other.
That's what I likened QRV to also, the wild west.🤠 Then there was the pizzagate sub, that was crazy good research there. Many of us started at Reddit Great Awakening and when that got shut down we went to Voat, then that was shut down and we are here. I am thankful we've had a place to call home all along.
I agree. I started with the CBTS on reddit and followed the herd when everyone had to move on. QRV was almost unlikable toward the end. I checked VOAT every day, several times a day, but could only tolerate QRV for a short time. Spent most of my time between GA and TGA.
It was...I went there because Q asked for such a platform, and hey-presto!
There's the QRV. I've grown to love this place even more though, because it's more of a supportive, global community. The mods here are the bomb, and they keep the handshake shills at bay.
I cried last Christmas when VOAT ended. I was on until the last second. Felt like a friend died. I was thinking there was going to be a repeat shut down here a couple days ago when the server was down for hours. Scary. I wonder where the other Goats went?
Who was the guy who would occasionally say some cognizant and thoughtful stuff every now and then, but even when he did, would always end up asking to see the others commenter’s dick?
Can’t remember his name. Juvenile but it always cracked me up haha
How many Goats changed their screen names? Wild times, serious decoding there.
Perhaps we got too close too fast, they had to slow it down to allow the plan to fully play out….
I managed to read your post before it was deleted by moderators. It looks like you hit on the n-word a little hard. So what you're saying is that VOAT was a great place to share profanity and racism in the name of free speech. I'll take a pass on that.
One of the biggest ways our overlords have tricked us was to make some of us believe that free speech is for the purpose of profanity. No -- our forefathers were willing to Die For Your Right to criticize government and not be executed for doing it. Speaking solely for the purpose of being offensive is not worth dying for.
There were 3 main Q boards on VOAT. QRV was the wild west. Some liked that because, well, I guess you've seen a bit of it. There was some good research and spill over from 4 Chan / 8 Kun into QRV. But you had to wade through the muck to find the good stuff. There were 2 Great Awakening boards that were every bit as much Q as QRV. I would argue more so because devolving into name calling and racism wasn't tolerated, and I thought there was much more Q info being found, or brought in from 4 Chan /8 Kun, and it inspired people to find and drop in related material from other sources. People could make questionable comments if it was part of the discussion, and they might get called out on it, or it might get overlooked. So people were "free" to speak their mind. And some of the same would complain when they got shut down, but stirring up shit for the sake of stirring up shit did not go over. Typically, the worst offenders tended to migrate back to QRV. And QRV attracted a lot of shills.
I don't talk that way in my daily life, and don't online either, but we absolutely should be able to.
Doesn't mean people need to LIKE it.
That's the deal with free speech. Nobody needs to accept your speech, you just need to be able to say it. I'm guessing the deleted post in question had the N-F word. If you walk up to someone in person and call them that, expect a punch in the face, but not a jail cell. There's absolutely no reason anyone needs to put up with that shit... BUT... you are allowed to say it if you choose to.
It's kind of like flag burning. I totally support the right to burn the American flag.
If I catch you burning the American flag I'm taking it away from you and probably kicking your ass though. I think it's a disgusting thing to do.
If you can do it without being thrown in prison though, it means we have a free country.
If people can throw around NFs and ((()))'s all over the place, you know this is a safe place to share info that won't get deleted because it hurt someone's feelings.
This place is definitely a nicer day to day atmosphere, but the moderation does worry me.
Then it's not a highbrow type of free speech, it's a lowbrow type of free speech. The problem with that is that while the lowbrows are enjoying shooting off their mouths and seeing how far they can get away with it, the highbrows won't bother to share any high effort posts in such an environment. I don't blame them. Most of their readership would be lowbrows interested in shock speech, not true camaraderie and patriotism.
That said, I do support that there should be places on the internet where one can insult anyone in any way they want, pick a fight at every possible opportunity, post the most disgusting images ever, drive people away with offensive behavior, and just be the biggest assholes they can be.
To some people, this is absolute heaven.
Where is this heavenly place? And does someone sacrifice and fund it free of charge for those demanding absolutely no moderation ever?
It's probably much more satisfying in a juvenile way to find a more highbrow type group and sneak in the lowbrow profanity and racism because it's not expected and has shock value. And it makes it a fun game to see how far one can go before the moderators have to act.
I think Bob was simply making the point that free speech means you are going to see, hear, read some things you won't like. In most cases, that tells you a lot about the person speaking.
The unfortunate side effect of free speech is all the people who show up to disrupt the site, disrupt the movement, and derail good conversations. But they were identified and removed. Some of them were CIA moles, some basement dwellers, some political operatives, and some liberals who feel it's their job to destroy everything worthwhile. You could sometimes tell if you paid attention to how they interacted and what they said (the little tells). But the funny thing was, as iron sharpens iron, often the people we disagreed with brought out the best in us, and we all learned a lot.
I guess a lot turns on the purpose of the forum in question, and whether the moderators have the backbone to enforce the rules.
As an example, does the common man have the right to barge into a Congressional session and interrupt with some of the most vile speech he can come up with, shouting into the microphone simply because he wants to be offensive and interrupt important work? Does he have a free-speech right to do that? Do the cameras have to stay on him to maintain that nationwide feed? Are the congressmen required to pay attention to him as he acts like an idiot? Can he avoid jail for interrupting and assaulting Congress, because he has muh free speech?
Now how about a busker attempting to make a living on a street corner. The guy is talented and can sing and play the guitar really well. But somebody wants to exercise their free speech. So they get nose-to-nose with him and incessantly shout the most offensive stuff they can concoct while drowning out his performance. Is that free speech? Does he have a right to interrupt a good performance, and offend the crowd that wasn't there to hear him?
I'll shut up now, fren. I'm just having fun with it and shooting off my mouth.
No, a privately owned website can moderate as they see fit, for sure.
We're mostly here because what we want to talk about has been censored elsewhere, so I think there are some strong reasons to keep it as open as possible.
Ideally for me, we'd have a site just like this, AND Voat.
Just ignore the stuff you don't agree with. It's the wild west, but you're safe at home behind your computer screen. Don't take the internet so personally.
In a large group of people there's going to be plenty of stuff you disagree with personally.
The ability to express it is what is known as freedom. You have no obligation to agree with them though.
That makes me think about psychopaths though. I think that's the real solution. We probably need to "cure" or at least contain psychopathy. Do that, and I think a lot of our problems dry up fast.
The person you're talking about is probably a sociopath of some sort, or a shill, but if we didn't have psychopaths pulling the strings everywhere we'd probably have less of both of those things too.
Wow, it does seem longer ago. I became a Voater as soon as Q pointed to QRV as the spot we should head to after the big Reddit shutdown. But Voat never felt that homey. When GA win started up, I knew THIS was the place to be. Thanks, guys.
Was it really only a year ago? Seems like it was longer than that. Time flies ...
Crazy, isn't it? I was sitting here thinking about last Christmas, and remember saying my last goodbyes on VOAT, waiting for the plug to get pulled, and catching a few stragglers who were just getting word of the imminent demise of the place.
Voat's goats are still here. Merry Christmas, G45Colt! 🎄
Thank you. Merry Christmas to you and your family as well!
👍
🥸
Yes we are ! Voat rocked ! Merry Christmas to all you old Goats !
Merry Christmas fellow goats & nf's.
Oh, it must be my anniversary then. I've been here a year. (And I think it's better than Voat.)
Bittersweet...sure going differently than expected. Didn’t a Q post say that the “Ending wasn’t for everybody”...or something like that? Was he referring to the vax deaths? That the ending would not be for those who took the shot?
That could mean several different things, one is what you said, they won't be here for the ending or it will be too painful for those of us watching to look, some of us will have to turn away.
QRV on Voat was the only sanctioned discussion board outside of 8chan by Q.
Between QRV and Pizzagate I hopped.
Voat is missed.
Agreed!
I'm sad I missed the voat boat
Every morning I wake up and put a "G" in my search bar and let it autofill. Used to be a "V". Good times.
Thank God we have always had a place to go. I remember being in a full-fledged panic when they shut down CBTS on Reddit.
That we still have a place to go makes me believe the WH really are in control. That, and the fact that Trump is still alive.
I was very early to CBTS and was quite sad when that ended. But I'm sorry, my memories differ from many about QRV. There is no way things were able to be discussed without being totally chewed out as a moron by some old goat that wasn't necessary. The WIN board is by far the best all around place for discussion of lots of topics centered around Q without fearing a major backlash for not getting something quite right.
QRV was the wild west. The 2 Great Awakening boards were a little more like this place - a lot of the same QRV research with just enough moderation to keep the shills in check, and quite a few Goats that pushed back on the ornery ones - reminding them that everyone starts somewhere and we all have something to learn from each other.
That's what I likened QRV to also, the wild west.🤠 Then there was the pizzagate sub, that was crazy good research there. Many of us started at Reddit Great Awakening and when that got shut down we went to Voat, then that was shut down and we are here. I am thankful we've had a place to call home all along.
I forgot about the pizzagate sub. Didn't spend any time there. Checked it out and decided to stick to the Q drop boards.
I agree. I started with the CBTS on reddit and followed the herd when everyone had to move on. QRV was almost unlikable toward the end. I checked VOAT every day, several times a day, but could only tolerate QRV for a short time. Spent most of my time between GA and TGA.
Freespeech is a helluva of a drug.
Most places on the internet have a very narrow definition of free speech.
There was a gif of a girl trying to Karate kick a cup of of another girl head. Funniest thing I have ever seen.
Lmk if you run across it.
It’s hard to describe how awesome Voat was…. :(
Why? Please explain.
Try poal.co
It was a training ground. Then we were dispersed across creation.
Good place to cut some teeth that's for sure.
It was...I went there because Q asked for such a platform, and hey-presto!
There's the QRV. I've grown to love this place even more though, because it's more of a supportive, global community. The mods here are the bomb, and they keep the handshake shills at bay.
Kind of like shepherds <3
I cried last Christmas when VOAT ended. I was on until the last second. Felt like a friend died. I was thinking there was going to be a repeat shut down here a couple days ago when the server was down for hours. Scary. I wonder where the other Goats went?
Here I am! {waves}
Present and accounted for!
Here.
Here!
doot!
https://greatawakening.win/p/140vVh94xH/to-all-the-old-goats-who-remembe/
I miss that place
Say what you will about Voat, we had a lot more Q drops there!
Yep, 100% sure, Q Team, AI, MIL Patriots are everywhere! God bless Them all! o7
I really miss that place.
We never forget our fallen camps. Let's be thankful voat gifted us GA.WIN Merry Christmas, merry men.
Who was the guy who would occasionally say some cognizant and thoughtful stuff every now and then, but even when he did, would always end up asking to see the others commenter’s dick?
Can’t remember his name. Juvenile but it always cracked me up haha
I remembered, it’s Maroonsaint!
Feels like years ago now, its been a long year.
How many Goats changed their screen names? Wild times, serious decoding there. Perhaps we got too close too fast, they had to slow it down to allow the plan to fully play out….
Interesting thought....could be something to that....
Especially the “Israel is last” take. With all the ((( ))) research going on.
Yep, a transplant from voat, 1 year and 2 days ago...glad to be apart of GAW
I love the Parasite Pill PDF that's been floating around here, and I too am sad that I didn't fully jump on the Voat boat.
Does anyone have a link to some more PDFs of that style? Or some quintessential threads to read?
Dudes Voat.xyz
https://www.voat.xyz/
It’s been up for like 6 months
That looks interesting.
I miss the friends I made on there, it was great while it lasted.
I never gained any experience with VOAT. Could someone fill me in on what the special appeal of this place was?
I managed to read your post before it was deleted by moderators. It looks like you hit on the n-word a little hard. So what you're saying is that VOAT was a great place to share profanity and racism in the name of free speech. I'll take a pass on that.
One of the biggest ways our overlords have tricked us was to make some of us believe that free speech is for the purpose of profanity. No -- our forefathers were willing to Die For Your Right to criticize government and not be executed for doing it. Speaking solely for the purpose of being offensive is not worth dying for.
There were 3 main Q boards on VOAT. QRV was the wild west. Some liked that because, well, I guess you've seen a bit of it. There was some good research and spill over from 4 Chan / 8 Kun into QRV. But you had to wade through the muck to find the good stuff. There were 2 Great Awakening boards that were every bit as much Q as QRV. I would argue more so because devolving into name calling and racism wasn't tolerated, and I thought there was much more Q info being found, or brought in from 4 Chan /8 Kun, and it inspired people to find and drop in related material from other sources. People could make questionable comments if it was part of the discussion, and they might get called out on it, or it might get overlooked. So people were "free" to speak their mind. And some of the same would complain when they got shut down, but stirring up shit for the sake of stirring up shit did not go over. Typically, the worst offenders tended to migrate back to QRV. And QRV attracted a lot of shills.
I don't talk that way in my daily life, and don't online either, but we absolutely should be able to.
Doesn't mean people need to LIKE it.
That's the deal with free speech. Nobody needs to accept your speech, you just need to be able to say it. I'm guessing the deleted post in question had the N-F word. If you walk up to someone in person and call them that, expect a punch in the face, but not a jail cell. There's absolutely no reason anyone needs to put up with that shit... BUT... you are allowed to say it if you choose to.
It's kind of like flag burning. I totally support the right to burn the American flag.
If I catch you burning the American flag I'm taking it away from you and probably kicking your ass though. I think it's a disgusting thing to do.
If you can do it without being thrown in prison though, it means we have a free country.
If people can throw around NFs and ((()))'s all over the place, you know this is a safe place to share info that won't get deleted because it hurt someone's feelings.
This place is definitely a nicer day to day atmosphere, but the moderation does worry me.
Then it's not a highbrow type of free speech, it's a lowbrow type of free speech. The problem with that is that while the lowbrows are enjoying shooting off their mouths and seeing how far they can get away with it, the highbrows won't bother to share any high effort posts in such an environment. I don't blame them. Most of their readership would be lowbrows interested in shock speech, not true camaraderie and patriotism.
That said, I do support that there should be places on the internet where one can insult anyone in any way they want, pick a fight at every possible opportunity, post the most disgusting images ever, drive people away with offensive behavior, and just be the biggest assholes they can be.
To some people, this is absolute heaven.
Where is this heavenly place? And does someone sacrifice and fund it free of charge for those demanding absolutely no moderation ever?
It's probably much more satisfying in a juvenile way to find a more highbrow type group and sneak in the lowbrow profanity and racism because it's not expected and has shock value. And it makes it a fun game to see how far one can go before the moderators have to act.
I think Bob was simply making the point that free speech means you are going to see, hear, read some things you won't like. In most cases, that tells you a lot about the person speaking.
The unfortunate side effect of free speech is all the people who show up to disrupt the site, disrupt the movement, and derail good conversations. But they were identified and removed. Some of them were CIA moles, some basement dwellers, some political operatives, and some liberals who feel it's their job to destroy everything worthwhile. You could sometimes tell if you paid attention to how they interacted and what they said (the little tells). But the funny thing was, as iron sharpens iron, often the people we disagreed with brought out the best in us, and we all learned a lot.
I guess a lot turns on the purpose of the forum in question, and whether the moderators have the backbone to enforce the rules.
As an example, does the common man have the right to barge into a Congressional session and interrupt with some of the most vile speech he can come up with, shouting into the microphone simply because he wants to be offensive and interrupt important work? Does he have a free-speech right to do that? Do the cameras have to stay on him to maintain that nationwide feed? Are the congressmen required to pay attention to him as he acts like an idiot? Can he avoid jail for interrupting and assaulting Congress, because he has muh free speech?
Now how about a busker attempting to make a living on a street corner. The guy is talented and can sing and play the guitar really well. But somebody wants to exercise their free speech. So they get nose-to-nose with him and incessantly shout the most offensive stuff they can concoct while drowning out his performance. Is that free speech? Does he have a right to interrupt a good performance, and offend the crowd that wasn't there to hear him?
I'll shut up now, fren. I'm just having fun with it and shooting off my mouth.
No, a privately owned website can moderate as they see fit, for sure.
We're mostly here because what we want to talk about has been censored elsewhere, so I think there are some strong reasons to keep it as open as possible.
Ideally for me, we'd have a site just like this, AND Voat.
I did love VOAT!
Whenever I showed up there I immediately got attacked for not hating each and every jew, lol. Good riddance.
Just ignore the stuff you don't agree with. It's the wild west, but you're safe at home behind your computer screen. Don't take the internet so personally.
In a large group of people there's going to be plenty of stuff you disagree with personally.
The ability to express it is what is known as freedom. You have no obligation to agree with them though.
Well, it's the internet...
That makes me think about psychopaths though. I think that's the real solution. We probably need to "cure" or at least contain psychopathy. Do that, and I think a lot of our problems dry up fast.
The person you're talking about is probably a sociopath of some sort, or a shill, but if we didn't have psychopaths pulling the strings everywhere we'd probably have less of both of those things too.
I miss Voat
Wow, it does seem longer ago. I became a Voater as soon as Q pointed to QRV as the spot we should head to after the big Reddit shutdown. But Voat never felt that homey. When GA win started up, I knew THIS was the place to be. Thanks, guys.