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Voat: What Went Wrong, The Summary:

Reddit didn't let racists run rampant. Reddit didn't let racists run rampant. Reddit didn't let racists run rampant. Today, Voat is overrun with Racists and is a terrible place. Why didn't Reddit let racists run rampant?

If its any consolation you really don't have to look too hard to find a bunch of hardcore racists and bigots of all kinds on Reddit spouting violent hate rhetoric so I guess it all worked out?

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Counterpoint: 4chan is full of racists and worse, and is one of the most vibrant (for lack of a better word) communities on the internet.

I think Voat's failure to become notable is not due to the prejudice of its userbase, but rather 1) it was trying to fill a niche that didn't really exist - it was trying to be "edgy reddit" when plenty of existing communities offered the same thing, and 2) lack of network effect - there was no reason to go there because no one is going there. This type of site needs to reach a "critical mass" of traffic in each reddit/subverse/board to be viable.

I'd say one of the reasons why 4chan works and voat doesn't is because /pol/ is reasonably well cordoned off from the majority of 4chan which just wants to talk about anime.

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