Mine is that it's NSA owned and operated.
Call me paranoid, but I firmly believe that those sub bans were planned by reddit for the sole reason of giving a cover for those various imposters to enter the site unnoticed. Reddit was threatened by voat in the beginning, and after the early DDoS attacks failed to drag the site under, they resorted to subversive, covert means to maintain their market share.
Consider, what's the cost of a few full-time, minimum wage trolls against the threat of forever losing their hold on the market?
Call me paranoid, but I firmly believe that those sub bans were planned by reddit for the sole reason of giving a cover for those various imposters to enter the site unnoticed. Reddit was threatened by voat in the beginning, and after the early DDoS attacks failed to drag the site under, they resorted to subversive, covert means to maintain their market share.
Consider, what's the cost of a few full-time, minimum wage trolls against the threat of forever losing their hold on the market?
I don't think that the Exodus such as coontown or the others were what had to do with the site failing. It was the imposter types that came with those groups.
Most the user base of coontown that was on Reddit was great....as was the moderators, but when they came to Voat they were all different. It is my belief that controlled opposition was the name of the game all along.
Just scatter the user base and fragment the movement.