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Did Amalek Win?

posted by Justintoxicated on MeanwhileOnVoat

Most people who went to Voat years ago remember their well known resident spammer/troll, Amalek.

Amalek would generally post long incoherent/autistic rants against the Jews ad nauseam until his account got banned and he had to create a new one (this happened almost daily).

Amalek was for the most part a novelty, a person with too much time on his hands that spent every waking hour spamming Voat. He was the bane of the admins existence as he was considered the most successful spammer. Most folks would downvoat him or troll him for the hell of it.

However if you go to Voat now you see his style of autistic anti-Jew rant that would once have been downvoated to oblivion now makes up a big portion of the top content on Voat.

So did Amalek win?

Most people who went to Voat years ago remember their well known resident spammer/troll, Amalek. Amalek would generally post long incoherent/autistic rants against the Jews ad nauseam until his account got banned and he had to create a new one (this happened almost daily). Amalek was for the most part a novelty, a person with too much time on his hands that spent every waking hour spamming Voat. He was the bane of the admins existence as he was considered the most successful spammer. Most folks would downvoat him or troll him for the hell of it. However if you go to Voat now you see his style of autistic anti-Jew rant that would once have been downvoated to oblivion now makes up a big portion of the top content on Voat. So did Amalek win?

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[–] Justintoxicated [OP] 2 points (+2|-0)

Now I see it as evidence of an organized effort to destroy Voat

I was actually thinking about this the other day. I've seen sites highly upvoated there that are known Russian fakes and quite a bit of content that is completely unverifiable. Also memes/content that was produced/shared by groups that are known to be foreign actors.

[–] PhunkyPlatypus 3 points (+3|-0)

Before I left I had discovered about 6-10 accounts that I suspected was the same person or group.

They all had very high goat points, one was over 100k IIRC. But they all posted the same sort of cherry picked alt right nonsense.

They came to my attention by often posting from multiple accounts on succession. Basically flooding /new with a dozen low hanging fruit stories.

I initially tried to expose them for this to the community on their posts, but the circle jerk backing them was just too strong. It's the fuel for the fire the community had decided it wanted.