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  • woo (edited 9 years ago)
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    I guess it depends on what you classify as "bad behavior". A lot of the worst people from reddit migrated to voat after /r/FatPeopleHate was banned, and now they make up a large portion of its userbase. Until issues with their hosting providers forced them to ban it, the administration was happy to provide a safe haven for inappropriate pictures of minors on their site. That its ultimate banning caused a sizeable backlash from voat's userbase tells me they're not the kind of crowd I'd want to hang around.

    • Bastou
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      Maybe it's only the subverses (voat's equivalent of subreddits and tribes) I frequent then... But voat has some restrictions on up/down voting for newer accounts, maybe it helps a bit too.

    • woo
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      @Bastou -

      True. I've seen the same on reddit as well: if you can isolate yourself enough in smaller and/or well-moderated sections of a site, you can avoid much of the garbage that might be elsewhere.