Putt finally decided to grace Voat with his presence in one of the threads:
[–] PuttItOut 0 points (+0|-0) 20 minutes ago
Problem is I don't have the time manage Voat as a business. I'd think that just keeping it up and running (mostly) would satisfy users but people always want more from me.
It's like people think I have nothing but Voat in my life and I'm just flat out neglecting it.
I can't do enough to satisfy this community.
Plus I'm burned out big time. I'd invite anyone to put the amount of hours I've put into Voat over more than THREE YEARS, not ever getting paid for a single one, writing a massive ground breaking framework to give the community a new voice (BY MYSELF), only to be met with an onslaught of criticism and anger and then to treat Voat as a priority.
It's not a conspiracy. It's rather simple.
This does offer the more reasonable explanation: That Putt is basically burned out and apathetic because he doesn't want to do anything about, to, on, or with Voat, yet he also won't bring on anyone to help him (even though he pretends he'd like help)--probably because then he couldn't project the facade that he's some type of martyr because he does everything by himself. Sheesh man, responsibilities are hard! You know, coming on once a month to give updates...brutally difficult.
Putt doesn't care, but won't bring on people who do care. He doesn't even care enough to tell people what happened with the extended blackout. This guy is basically pissing on Atko's creation and the users who donated because he selfish. He claims he doesn't have time to do anything with Voat but also won't let anyone else help.
Edit* I'm an idiot and forgot the link: https://voat.co/v/whatever/2526948/12650943
Putt is tired. He has given a metric fuck ton to that community and gotten a bunch of shit for it from a lot of people, human beings tend to more easily focus on the negative rather than positive. So even with the admittedly large amount of support he gets he probably sees the negative more. Its a sad state but you just have to have a thick skin in order to do really much of anything online. It would appear even if he had one the attacks have managed to get through.