I spent most of yesterday going through old Voat archives and, when the site needed it, they got all the donations they needed, quickly, to the point where they'd shut down the donations because they could run for a handful of months with what they had.
He had guys donating huge amounts of bitcoin. I offered him my old wallet with a few grand in it if he could brute force the password (he refused and I eventually did it myself). Even then I donated 50 quid a few times before he shut down donations.
Every time he asked for money he posted again a few days later thanking the community and saying he had gotten enough. I understand him wanting something more stable but there was no desperate situation he had to solve asap.
I wasn't doing anything with it at the time and I didn't think bitcoin was going to go as nuts as it did. If I had I'd probably have offered a little less.
Either way, the point is that plenty of people were willing to pay to keep the site going. If he'd done some kind of subscription thing to keep donations stable I'd have signed up.
What you said is in fact what happened and yet I still don't understand it. It's not like he was naïve about such a company, so it's almost like he just did it for the money, BUT...he did it so long for nothing that it couldn't have been that either. Voat has always been a strange place...
EDIT: I shouldn't have said it "couldn't have been that", it could have, it just seems odd to me if anything we were ever told was actually true.
I think he let himself be sweet talked. He might not have known about the company's ties when he initially signed the papers, or maybe he missed something in the fine print. I don't completely blame him, it's the kind of mistake I could easily have made.
Would cost more than those options, but in reality it would have only been a few hundred a year, and the donations would have covered or came close to covering it.
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[ - ] ParnellsUprising 9 points 2.4 yearsDec 25, 2021 22:17:57 ago (+9/-0)
Our diversity is different goy, stop paying attention!
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[ + ] GrayDragon
[ - ] GrayDragon 1 point 2.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 09:02:58 ago (+2/-1)
Should have he gone that route to start, yeah. It would not have worked.
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[ + ] Broc_Liath
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Every time he asked for money he posted again a few days later thanking the community and saying he had gotten enough. I understand him wanting something more stable but there was no desperate situation he had to solve asap.
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[ - ] Teefinyomouf 0 points 2.4 yearsDec 26, 2021 20:45:10 ago (+0/-0)
That's incredibly generous of you.
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Either way, the point is that plenty of people were willing to pay to keep the site going. If he'd done some kind of subscription thing to keep donations stable I'd have signed up.
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EDIT: I shouldn't have said it "couldn't have been that", it could have, it just seems odd to me if anything we were ever told was actually true.
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these are mossad using infosec as a guise to garnish further information from anyone dumb enough to use their services for "privacy".
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