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I'm hoping this will be less negative than Voat.
RIP Reddit. Voat is the worst of you and no other aggregate news site has come close to catching that fire you had in your youth. I'm looking forward to finding that special place that combines free speech and logical discourse with provocative thought that isn't held back by moderators or users gaming the system.
All I want is a place to go for a true variety of news and discourse without the fake news, trolls, and extreme polarization.




Voat is horrific. Welcome! Hope you find communities you like here!
Honestly it doesn't take much to be less negative than Voat.
Welcome. You might like /politics, /news, and /reads
If you're looking for casual chatting, /lets_grab_coffee is pretty friendly.
Voat is a bastion of idiots and morons that feel a stated lack of censorship is the perfect place for either genuinely racist/bigoted remarks, OR a place to troll others by posting the same.
I spent a week there before I got sick of wading through stupid. Imzy, while not as lively, at least, seems to have people that post something of substance, rather than just "Black people steal...har..har..har", "Mexican people are lazy", etc., which seems to be the pinnacle of Voat comments.. :|
In the hour I spent on Voat I realized they are the same people who brought down Reddit during the last election cycle. I guess it's down to how motivated someone is to post their views. I hold very liberal views but don't really care to spout off about them online. It just shouldn't be possible for such ill willed people to take control of an entire forum of discussion.
I was in the middle of a lot of went down on Reddit. I wasn't instrumental or anything, but I was participating and affected when the CTR shills showed up and wrecked some of the subs. I also saw the shit element take that as a challenge and when they "won" back the subreddits, they turned them in cesspools.
Ill willed people are a fact of life, sadly and anonymity makes them think they can't be found. I've taken the time to dox a couple of them and put their info out there. If they feel that strongly about hate, then they need to defend their position IRL and deal with the consequences or learn from their mistake. It's all their choice.
Not the most kind approach, sure, but I'm a grey hat. I was a black hat hacker about 1000 years ago. Now, I protect systems from people like I was, but I still keep my toe in the dark side. That's the best way to know what's coming next and some of that still echoes in me, but on a very tightly controlled leash.. ;)
Thanks for your service Mr. Robot. I haven't touched modern day hacking but back in high school my friends and I would troll chat rooms and make trojans to infect disturbing individual's PCs and wipe them out. I've wanted to get back into it especially since there's actually a career path for "ethical hackers" now.
It sounds more exciting than it is. Lots of hours, learning obscure bits, in order to know enough minutia to actually work your way in. Its like reading 100s of pages of insurance forms to find the flaw. It's still interesting to weirdos like me. I was always more of a Social Engineer, but you still have to know enough about the system and workflow to insert yourself, without suspicion.
Most of the time, it's just boredom. I hacked because I could and was bored with school and everything else. I wasn't a 400 IQ person, but teaching to the lowest common denominator gets old for people like me and likely you. I don't blame the system. Things I would have been interested in and understood would have flown right over the heads of some of the "people" I went to school with. Exploring computer and phone systems was my outlet. I never trashed anyone's system, although, I did use their resources for my own benefit, so not exactly a straight arrow, "back in the day".
It can be interesting, but mostly, it's a lot of work and when you're done, if you took the time to do it right, nothing happens and while that's exactly what you want, it's disheartening sometimes because non-technicals have no idea just how brilliant or elegant some of your solutions are. 1st world problem, I guess. :)
Voat is actually quite literally populated by people who got banned from reddit. One of their first big influxes was from when FatPeopleHate and Coontown got banned.
I got banned from Reddit.. 10+ year account with 50k+ karma. Founder in Gold, Seekret Santa, etc.
The reason?
I posted in /r/politics that Trump was an Orange Clown and that statement was within the context of the discussion.
Apparently, you don't take the name of Saint Trump in vain, in /r/politics. No appeal, no recourse, just Fuck you, banned, by some mentally handicapped Trump Supporter. sigh. The Clintonites were no better and worse, in some cases.
I deleted all my accounts (approx. 100k karma across all of them), and never went back, so I hope they enjoy driving away people that bring content/commentary to what is now an abysmal shithole. Front page of the internet? More like "The Anus of the Internet". Voat is the only place that I've seen that's worse. 4chan is better than Voat and that speaks volumes about that place.
Do you mean you got banned from /r/politics, or that you got banned from reddit as a whole? That isn't something that would get you a ban from reddit.
Banned from /r/politics and started thinking about why I would even post on a site that lets Mods run wild like apes, no oversight, no recourse and decided to take my unimportant POV elsewhere. :)