So, I went and poked them to see the response.
I haven't been there in a while, so wasn't sure what, if any, reaction I would get.
Turned out pretty reasonable (so far).
I triggered a couple, but got lols and reasonable comments from most.
So, I went and poked them to see the response.
I haven't been there in a while, so wasn't sure what, if any, reaction I would get.
Turned out pretty reasonable (so far).
I triggered a couple, but got lols and reasonable comments from most.
Yeah, he lived in a city under fire, went through hell as a young civilian in a Muslim family.
They got out, went to Europe as refugees, and did well.
He's a modern success story.
That much I know. I suspect that he was mostly in it for the code at the start, and just didn't want to deal with Admin shit so let it coast on its own. He was thick-skinned and understanding, but it probably wore him down over time. He seemed to get more and more stressed, then some erratic behaviour, then poof, gone.
I assumed he did this..
This paragraph is all speculation, though.
I'm also wondering if Putt has ghosted the site.
Time will tell. I hope they find some stability.
Intredasting. I did know he had some trouble as a kid but didn't know the story.
He seemed mildly irritated by some happenings on the site even as early as a couple of months after the first big Reddit influx. I recall an incident in which he proclaimed "as usual, I am Hitler" after coming home from work/uni and having to deal with some trouble over people complaining about a mod. I think he was in it for the code too.
people should not go around stirring up shit for personal entertainment.
this is why we can't have nice things.
someone makes a nice thing, and someone thinks it's funny to go screw with it.
stirring up shit for personal entertainment.
I think you're misreading the intentions. All I am trying to stir up is conversation. Take a look at the post, I don't think it comes across as malicious. Does it?
I've put a lot of time into Voat over the years, and not once has it ever had bad intentions.
I think it is fair for me to share a little of the credit/blame(along with many others) for how it came to be.
I wish well for the site.
unfortunately I have run into a number of people that thought that stress testing a site by stirring up shit was the best was to "improve it"
Idiots that they were.
so I am slightly touchy on the subject.
On the basis of "this is why we can't have nice things" via "oops I broke it, sorry"
Well, I am not that type of idiot.
I'm an entirely different kind of idiot.
I wasn't 'stress-testing', just checking the water temperature.
By Voat standards that doesn't rate as stress, drama, or of any real significance.
Are you sure that he is a Muslim? Atko is ethnically Bozniak, who are predominately Muslim, but I think he has never answered questions about his religion even when he was directly asked about his experiences in the Yugoslav Civil War.
Are you sure that he is a Muslim?
Depends on your definition of sure. I don't recall any instances of him directly saying it. There might be? But I am not going to try and find those old posts, was the Voat database ever opened back up after they 'temporarily' limited how far back you could go?
Going on memory, It was confirmed that he was from a Muslim family, and born Muslim. That doesn't mean he still is, he never answered that question. Take that as you will.
I actually did not know that about Atko. I wonder if that played any part in his decision to stop actively contributing to the site.