Before VOAT there was the chans. And both the chans with their Q posts ran concurrently with VOAT.
But some of us (myself included) did not like going into the chans as they were difficult to navigate. VOAT was easier to use and understand with less nudity,
There are files that many anons downloaded from VOAT before they killed the site. I do not have any of them but was a VOAT member who moved over here when VOAT closed down.
Same here. A good place to read the new Q posts and also get a breakdown on what they meant. Reading the posts in real time, they referred to events that were happening AT THE TIME they were posted. Seeing the proofs went a long way, for me, in believing that Q was the real deal. Several anons on YouTube were also great sources for Q post breakdowns, like redpill78, but they were all purged from YouTube. When Voat was closed people were sharing places to meet up, GAW was the one I ended up at. Voat was way more Q focused, but then Q was still posting then. By the start of GAW it was obvious that the news the MSM, including Fox, was putting out was complete propaganda. GAW, as was Voat, was the only source of reliable news for me.
They used the Azure cloud from Microsoft with a big discount for new users, and used C# (Microsoft technology) to build the site. When the discount period was over, it was $6000+ per month to keep the site up. There was attempts at converting it to open source but it didn't go anywhere.
Hmm don't quite remember when it was. It was a few years back. The owner of the site shut it down didn't want to run it any longer I guess. He did give us warning, though.
Me too. But let's be honest. VOAT was only slightly better than the chans. The VOAT user-base exploded when Reddit killed CBTS (Calm Before The Storm) and GA (Great Awakening). Both boards predated VOAT and had a MUCH larger user base. The VOAT mods were total assholes to the Redditors. They tried to chase off any new users that came from Reddit. I had already had an account on VOAT before Reddit killed the boards on their platform, so I kind of flew under the radar and didn't get any crap. I stayed on, and eventually they grew to accept us, but it was nothing like the community that we have here.
Pretty much sums me up too. I didn't like trying to navigate the chans. VOAT was easier and it had a rawness/free speech going on there that I appreicated.
There were some Reddit groups that had a lot of followers, Calm Before The Storm, and The Great Awakening if I recall correctly. The were shutdown by Reddit in early 2017. That's when I started taking this seriously. Then discovering Ghislaine Maxwell was one of the tops Minds of Reddit was an added bonus.
I never did the chans. I agree they were too hard to navigate. But when Q had the board created for us on VOAT, man, were those great times! The amount of research that was going on there to build the big picture was a beautiful thing to participate in. I'll always miss it. I'm so grateful an anon told me about this place right before our final hour. Did you know VOAT closed with a Bible verse and Pompeo ended his Secretary of State gig with the same verse on Twitter? Amazing things came from VOAT, like the foundation of this colossal 40,000 foot mosaic we now see so clearly. I found where I belonged there and I'm still here with so many of the same honest and faceless frens. We've always been in it to win it. God speed anons. 💥💥💥💥💥
You were misinformed fren. Q only had the private qresearch board on 8chan at that time. I say private, because only Q could post there. That's where all of the aggregation sites got their Q posts from. I don't know who started the VOAT site, but it was just about the only place left on the net to discuss Q other than 8chan so it became really popular. It was nowhere close to what we have here.
My apologies for not being more clear anon. I was saying that Q never posted to voat (at least that we can confirm). Q only posted on the official qresearch page until moving to 8kun. I remember some of us wondering if Q posed as anons and dropped crumbs on voat when our research was going in the wrong direction. But it was only speculation.
No I don't remember that one. Other than the chans, my boards were on reddit (Calm Before The Storm & Great Awakening). When those got shut down I found Voat.
BTW, I took the original post out of context thinking they were saying that Q posted on Voat. You can see my clarification in that thread. My bad.
Q started posting on 4-chan as Q clearance patriot. Moved to 8 Chan and later to 8 kun, which could also be reached through Tor.
Back in the day, there were a lot of places where the happenings pre-Q could be discussed.
On reddit until the several boards there were axed, on Abovetopsecret, and smaller discussion boards like voat. Of course there were the several blogs, where people shared and their views, and also on news aggregate sites like Zerohedge.
The issue is people were discussing prepping, politics, technical solutions in general, cooking etc all the time everywhere.
With the advent of the instituted push to combat fake-news .... the need for a place to share in particular the events surrounding Trump became obvious.
Voat was axed a couple of years back on Christmas eve. The board owner moved here. Some went to GAW, others also to poal and some other places.
The times we spent on VOAT, especially on the board: Greatawakening and QRV were well spent. There is a lot of information there. And I recommend to everyone doing their research to go there and pick up the data retained on searchvoat.co.
This site is not very well suited for research. You could do it, but it is rather awkward. The best method, I have found, is to learn howto use a searchengine. Under the label: site you can specify greatawakening.win, the time-frame, the search words with or without quotation marks, and the time-frame. Even the user-name can be used.
I'll check where I have the total Q posts downloads in a zipfile, including all links (a lot of dead ones due to twitter shit) and all pictures. I will upload it somewhere and make it available for download. Safe it off-line. It is a way of restoring some of the functionality of qagg.news, which was the most comprehensive site.
Like 4Chan /pol/ and 8chan/Kun, Voat took free speech to it's limits. On QRV you posted anonymously and received a random ID so as remain a anon. Your upvotes never counted toward your system wide total. The only true reward being your participation in the flow of information.
You could expect shills a plenty and try not to feed them as you try every once in a while you would have to show one the back of your hand. Kind of rough and tumble but I liked it.
As for predecessors CBTS and the original TheDonald and brief Pizzagate appearance at reddit all where solid with a lot of participation by the users, while being blitzed daily by reddit overlords with even Steve himself showing up to fuck with TheDonald.
Before VOAT there was the chans. And both the chans with their Q posts ran concurrently with VOAT.
But some of us (myself included) did not like going into the chans as they were difficult to navigate. VOAT was easier to use and understand with less nudity,
There are files that many anons downloaded from VOAT before they killed the site. I do not have any of them but was a VOAT member who moved over here when VOAT closed down.
Same here. A good place to read the new Q posts and also get a breakdown on what they meant. Reading the posts in real time, they referred to events that were happening AT THE TIME they were posted. Seeing the proofs went a long way, for me, in believing that Q was the real deal. Several anons on YouTube were also great sources for Q post breakdowns, like redpill78, but they were all purged from YouTube. When Voat was closed people were sharing places to meet up, GAW was the one I ended up at. Voat was way more Q focused, but then Q was still posting then. By the start of GAW it was obvious that the news the MSM, including Fox, was putting out was complete propaganda. GAW, as was Voat, was the only source of reliable news for me.
Thanks! When and why was Voat shut down?
I think it was shut down Christmas Eve of 2020, shortly after the election. Not sure why, though.
Somebody screenshotted the last post before takedown.
It was a post showing a direct connection between the vatican and Les Wexner, who was epstein's first "client".
Wish someone would post it so we could see it. I barely remember it because of the heartbrokeness of it all. Worst Christmas Eve I remember
It was shut down due to rising costs.
They used the Azure cloud from Microsoft with a big discount for new users, and used C# (Microsoft technology) to build the site. When the discount period was over, it was $6000+ per month to keep the site up. There was attempts at converting it to open source but it didn't go anywhere.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk/comments/6btlv1/voat_hobby_reddit_clone_with_no_monetization/
I see. Thanks for the info 🙏🏻
Hmm don't quite remember when it was. It was a few years back. The owner of the site shut it down didn't want to run it any longer I guess. He did give us warning, though.
Interesting… wonder what happened to him.
I was a goat too. Ibliked some aspevts of voat. But it got overrun with nazi antifa types.
Me too. But let's be honest. VOAT was only slightly better than the chans. The VOAT user-base exploded when Reddit killed CBTS (Calm Before The Storm) and GA (Great Awakening). Both boards predated VOAT and had a MUCH larger user base. The VOAT mods were total assholes to the Redditors. They tried to chase off any new users that came from Reddit. I had already had an account on VOAT before Reddit killed the boards on their platform, so I kind of flew under the radar and didn't get any crap. I stayed on, and eventually they grew to accept us, but it was nothing like the community that we have here.
Pretty much sums me up too. I didn't like trying to navigate the chans. VOAT was easier and it had a rawness/free speech going on there that I appreicated.
There were some Reddit groups that had a lot of followers, Calm Before The Storm, and The Great Awakening if I recall correctly. The were shutdown by Reddit in early 2017. That's when I started taking this seriously. Then discovering Ghislaine Maxwell was one of the tops Minds of Reddit was an added bonus.
Thanks 🙏🏻
I never did the chans. I agree they were too hard to navigate. But when Q had the board created for us on VOAT, man, were those great times! The amount of research that was going on there to build the big picture was a beautiful thing to participate in. I'll always miss it. I'm so grateful an anon told me about this place right before our final hour. Did you know VOAT closed with a Bible verse and Pompeo ended his Secretary of State gig with the same verse on Twitter? Amazing things came from VOAT, like the foundation of this colossal 40,000 foot mosaic we now see so clearly. I found where I belonged there and I'm still here with so many of the same honest and faceless frens. We've always been in it to win it. God speed anons. 💥💥💥💥💥
Nice 👍🏻
You were misinformed fren. Q only had the private qresearch board on 8chan at that time. I say private, because only Q could post there. That's where all of the aggregation sites got their Q posts from. I don't know who started the VOAT site, but it was just about the only place left on the net to discuss Q other than 8chan so it became really popular. It was nowhere close to what we have here.
Sept 21, 2018, Q asked for a board for the reddit refuges and our VOAT board was created. Look it up.
They did indeed. I was skimming and thought you were saying Q posted there. Totally my bad.
Excellent! You researched it! Hell yeah! That's what its all about, fren. 😁👍
Q drops #2267-2272.
I believe it is you that is misinformed.
My apologies for not being more clear anon. I was saying that Q never posted to voat (at least that we can confirm). Q only posted on the official qresearch page until moving to 8kun. I remember some of us wondering if Q posed as anons and dropped crumbs on voat when our research was going in the wrong direction. But it was only speculation.
It was originally Whoaverse but the name was changed to Voat before Q suggested migrating there. That did get Gab pissed as they were overlooked.
As for me I migrated from Digg (remember that?)
No I don't remember that one. Other than the chans, my boards were on reddit (Calm Before The Storm & Great Awakening). When those got shut down I found Voat.
BTW, I took the original post out of context thinking they were saying that Q posted on Voat. You can see my clarification in that thread. My bad.
Q started posting on 4-chan as Q clearance patriot. Moved to 8 Chan and later to 8 kun, which could also be reached through Tor.
Back in the day, there were a lot of places where the happenings pre-Q could be discussed.
On reddit until the several boards there were axed, on Abovetopsecret, and smaller discussion boards like voat. Of course there were the several blogs, where people shared and their views, and also on news aggregate sites like Zerohedge.
The issue is people were discussing prepping, politics, technical solutions in general, cooking etc all the time everywhere.
With the advent of the instituted push to combat fake-news .... the need for a place to share in particular the events surrounding Trump became obvious.
Voat was axed a couple of years back on Christmas eve. The board owner moved here. Some went to GAW, others also to poal and some other places.
The times we spent on VOAT, especially on the board: Greatawakening and QRV were well spent. There is a lot of information there. And I recommend to everyone doing their research to go there and pick up the data retained on searchvoat.co.
This site is not very well suited for research. You could do it, but it is rather awkward. The best method, I have found, is to learn howto use a searchengine. Under the label: site you can specify greatawakening.win, the time-frame, the search words with or without quotation marks, and the time-frame. Even the user-name can be used.
I'll check where I have the total Q posts downloads in a zipfile, including all links (a lot of dead ones due to twitter shit) and all pictures. I will upload it somewhere and make it available for download. Safe it off-line. It is a way of restoring some of the functionality of qagg.news, which was the most comprehensive site.
Current main place to lookup Q-posts: https://qalerts.pub/research/
Here is the raw text: https://www.q-clock.com/q_raw.txt
depending on the type of reader you use, you could use CTRL+F or use an awk/gawk script. But you would miss the pics & videos.
You could use: https://archive.org/details/Q-Anon/page/n35/mode/2up But that is just a pdf.
Of course there is the qagg.news archive.org link you could use. https://archive.li/https://qagg.news/
https://qresear.ch/q-posts is also very nice, especially given the research per post being easily available.
Another nice research tool: https://social-comp.github.io/ConspiracyTraces/
The gist of Q-posts in terms of language used. It is a json format file readable with wordpad if you are still being screwed by Windows.
Very thorough! Thanks for the effort, pede!
You can still see a lot of archived voat at searchvoat.co.
I still have my QRV and my Pizzagate bookmarks.
Like 4Chan /pol/ and 8chan/Kun, Voat took free speech to it's limits. On QRV you posted anonymously and received a random ID so as remain a anon. Your upvotes never counted toward your system wide total. The only true reward being your participation in the flow of information.
You could expect shills a plenty and try not to feed them as you try every once in a while you would have to show one the back of your hand. Kind of rough and tumble but I liked it.
As for predecessors CBTS and the original TheDonald and brief Pizzagate appearance at reddit all where solid with a lot of participation by the users, while being blitzed daily by reddit overlords with even Steve himself showing up to fuck with TheDonald.
But I still miss Voat to be sure.
Thank you!
There was Whoiverse which became Voat, before that most anons were on Reddit, Mastodon and the chans.
And before any of that the was the big migration to Reddit from Digg.