WARNING: Poal has always been powermodded like reddit, stay away from it
(MeanwhileOnPoal)Fun fact: Poal staff fucked over voaters for their own gain during the shutdown, when they welcomed users the reddit-style moderation was already the status quo and they were not planning to change anything about it. It was an underhanded way to get more users. There is absolutely no reason to believe anything they have to say.
Based on the threads here, poal's chat and all the poal smokers it's clear there is a core group that doesn't care about the rest of the userbase, much less about the spirit of voat. The low IQ worker bees keep up the illusion of the place being fair when AOU is called out, it's like a cult.
Their modus operandi is to ban or tag users untrustworthy as they seem fit, either by removing all their points or by adding a (suspicious behavior) icon to their and profile every post they make with the implication that a rule was broken, often without evidence or even a reason, hiding behind an excuse of security by obscurity even in trivial cases.
And it was always like this, antiliberalsociety summed it up almost a year before the shutdown:
https://searchvoat.co/v/whatever/3601519> Some OG's (Original Goats got mad at Puttitout (our admin) and "divorced" Voat, bringing their clique to their own site trying to mirror this one. It backfired, because the censorship they complained about on here, causing the divorce in the first place, they themselves implemented on their new site, causing a reverse migration back over to Voat. Only the clique members stay dedicated to Poal, citing our old catchphrase "fuck off back to [other-site]" (We used to say "fuck off back to reddit")
> They use our downtime as "proof" they are better, yet their traffic remains stagnant. The front page often has days old content, most content is reposted from Voat, users that question authority get the badge of shame on their name:
> SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR
> And they of course ban "spammers" that go against their narratives.
If you want to keep people off pretend-voat drop the smartass comments and try adding more historical context.
