I just don't get what they hope to accomplish... they're a young country and fairly naive but have some great ideas... however they're eating themselves alive since before I was born.... it's funny to watch the daily 'Merican post of voat though.... I just think they're loosing sight of everything before they even had it
it's not one post.... I've been cringing at seeing stupid posts go over 100 up votes... for instance... the smallest anti football thing is currently getting +100 regardless if it's even making sense... 10% dropped in sales so everyone jumps... only problem is Football is an American sport... it's just kind of comical especially the "raahhh raahhh" responses
it's not one post.... I've been cringing at seeing stupid posts go over 100 up votes... for instance... the smallest anti football thing is currently getting +100 regardless if it's even making sense... 10% dropped in sales so everyone jumps... only problem is Football is an American sport... it's just kind of comical especially the "raahhh raahhh" responses
Posts on Voat are only an indictment of one thing - Voat, and the users who participate in it.
Voat does not speak for America. It does not represent a majority or even a plurality of people. In reality, only a fraction of Americans use or probably have even heard of Voat. Voat is mostly a cross-section of
- individuals alt-right/extreme right-wing views
- people who enjoy using a Reddit-like site
- people who've actually heard of it before
Only 70% of people using Voat are even American. At 47,800 unique visitors per day, that means ~33,000 Americans are using it each day. At 323 million people in the USA, that's .001% of the American population. In other words, a vanishingly small number.
As for why a football post is getting upvotes, it's the same reason anything gets upvotes in any echo-chamber/groupthink situation. Any post that seems to reinforce what you want, makes you feel good, gives you unearned moral superiority, it's a good thing. You're gonna upvote it. And you're gonna downvote the "bad" stuff that makes you feel the opposite. It's the same for any group caught in this (extreme feminists, most people heavily invested in "one side" in politics, SJWs, alt-right, etc).
Stupid posts on Reddit get thousands of votes all the time. What happens on Voat isn't an indictment of America. It's an indictment of Voat. A big part of the issue of politics today (in this country) is this lumping of everyone into "identity groups", and it feels like that's what you're doing here with Americans. You are seeing a minuscule slice of a massive population of people, and drawing broad, all-encompassing assumptions from it. It's simply not reflective of reality.
In the same way it seemed like there was 0% chance for Trump to win the election if you only read stuff on Reddit, neither is Voat a good reflection of reality, because the majority of Americans don't use either. I guarantee you some significant percentage of older people have never heard Reddit. You can't draw broad conclusions like that from any one site, especially those that bias themselves (whether on purpose or not) toward a particular type of thinking or particular types of individuals.
Posts on Voat are only an indictment of one thing - Voat, and the users who participate in it.
Voat does not speak for America. It does not represent a majority or even a plurality of people. In reality, only a fraction of Americans use or probably have even heard of Voat. Voat is mostly a cross-section of
- individuals alt-right/extreme right-wing views
- people who enjoy using a Reddit-like site
- people who've actually heard of it before
Only [70% of people using Voat are even American](https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/voat.co). At [47,800 unique visitors per day](http://voat.co.hypestat.com/), that means ~33,000 Americans are using it each day. At 323 million people in the USA, that's .001% of the American population. In other words, a vanishingly small number.
As for why a football post is getting upvotes, it's the same reason anything gets upvotes in any echo-chamber/groupthink situation. Any post that seems to reinforce what you want, makes you feel good, gives you unearned moral superiority, it's a good thing. You're gonna upvote it. And you're gonna downvote the "bad" stuff that makes you feel the opposite. It's the same for any group caught in this (extreme feminists, most people heavily invested in "one side" in politics, SJWs, alt-right, etc).
Stupid posts on Reddit get thousands of votes all the time. What happens on Voat isn't an indictment of America. It's an indictment of Voat. A big part of the issue of politics today (in this country) is this lumping of everyone into "identity groups", and it feels like that's what you're doing here with Americans. You are seeing a minuscule slice of a massive population of people, and drawing broad, all-encompassing assumptions from it. It's simply not reflective of reality.
In the same way it seemed like there was 0% chance for Trump to win the election if you only read stuff on Reddit, neither is Voat a good reflection of reality, because the majority of Americans _don't use either_. I guarantee you some significant percentage of older people have never heard Reddit. You can't draw broad conclusions like that from any one site, especially those that bias themselves (whether on purpose or not) toward a particular type of thinking or particular types of individuals.
I think it's a bad idea to take one post of Voat and think that it describes America in any form (a small part, maybe, but you could do the same with any country). You can easily find a (seemingly) much more popular opinion on Reddit probably saying something about opposite of that Voat post.
We did win the
staring contestwho will nuke the world first contestwho's economy's dick is biggerideological war with the with the Soviet Union, which has kind of gone well for everyone as a result, so I think we deserve a few points there.Besides, we actually taste delicious, so eating ourselves isn't all bad.