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Bonfire Lit
Jul 9, 2008

If you're one of the sinners who caused this please unfriend me now.

unpacked robinhood posted:

how do you fraud humble bundle with bitcoin ?
you give them bitcoin (a worthless piece of pretend money)

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poik007
Aug 16, 2006
Thinks Mother 3 is the best game ever

TVarmy posted:

you can't ban me, im a voat. toot toot

surevoat

fuctifino
Jun 11, 2001

No censorship

quote:

Regarding questionable content (self.announcements)

submitted 14 hours ago by Atko

In the last few days Voat has come under all sorts of attacks. First, our servers were DDoSed. Then, our servers were shut down and our hosting contracts cancelled, without prior notification. Today, PayPal froze our donation money. As a cherry on top, the media wrote all kinds of negative things about Voat, cherry picking the content that serves their attacks best. What a happy week for us!

When I wrote the first few lines of code for Voat, I never anticipated Voat would become such an in-demand platform for discussion. In fact, I just shared it with a few of my classmates at first and look what happened! People started using it and asking for new features, sending support… Others digged in and helped by writing code and fixing bugs. We were doing fine, in our little community, until Voat got major attention from the media. Overnight, Voat became a target or even a threat.

Voat is currently operated by me and /u/PuttItOut. We both work for free and we have both invested thousands of hours into Voat in order to make it what it is today. We have pretty drat good plans for the future and we may be on the verge on creating something unique, something that hasn’t been done before. Unfortunately, there are people and institutions that “just want to see the world burn” and they will do anything they can to make our journey harder.

I wanted Voat to be a bastion of free speech where anyone could say anything and open discussion could prevail. This is still something I believe Voat can be, but we need your help. To make things worse, we may be personally liable for the content you guys submit to Voat. I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel like going to jail just because someone chose to anonymously post a link to an illegal image hosted somewhere on a third party server. Because Voat is being used by so many people, the two of us simply cannot review everything that is being posted. For this reason, as a temporary measure, we have decided to ban any subverses which we discover or which are reported to us, where links to illegal content is being shared. We can’t judge if the content is illegal or not, but we have no choice but to take precautions in order to protect Voat’s future at this very fragile stage.

In addition, to further dissuade individuals from posting questionable content, we will store all records about users who submit such content and we will forward these records to authorities upon request.

These are the subverses we banned: /v/doxbin, /v/jailbait, /v/truejailbait and /v/thefappening.

If you can’t donate, you can help us out by reporting any questionable subverses to abuse@voat.co

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fuctifino fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Jun 24, 2015

Herman Merman
Jul 6, 2008

Alan Smithee posted:

but why in the gently caress do you spend ungodly amounts of hours staring at pictures of the kind of people who disgust you?

to be fair gbs loves reddit.jpeg/goon.tiff threads

InShaneee
Aug 11, 2006

Cleanse them. Cleanse the world of their ignorance and sin. Bathe them in the crimson of ... am I on speakerphone?
Fun Shoe

fuctifino posted:

I wanted Voat to be a bastion of free speech where anyone could say anything and open discussion could prevail. This is still something I believe Voat can be, but we need your help. To make things worse, we may be personally liable for the content you guys submit to Voat. I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel like going to jail just because someone chose to anonymously post a link to an illegal image hosted somewhere on a third party server. Because Voat is being used by so many people, the two of us simply cannot review everything that is being posted. For this reason, as a temporary measure, we have decided to ban any subverses which we discover or which are reported to us, where links to illegal content is being shared. We can’t judge if the content is illegal or not, but we have no choice but to take precautions in order to protect Voat’s future at this very fragile stage.

i love watching libertarians have to choose between their crazy ideals and real-world consequnces

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands


I keep clicking the NICE! button. :getin:

Stanley Pain
Jun 16, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

posting naked pictures of girls/women sitting is not pornography. it is art.

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist



so many things in there that i don't understand but i'm sure as poo poo am not going to google

the hell is fhp?

gschmidl
Sep 3, 2011

watch with knife hands

surebet posted:

so many things in there that i don't understand but i'm sure as poo poo am not going to google

the hell is fhp?

If you mean FPH it's probably fatpeoplehate.


e: i cant type

gschmidl fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Jun 24, 2015

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

avatar
specialist


[–] lydia 361 points (+427|-66) 14 hours ago (last edited 14 hours ago)
I understand that you need to protect the site but this is very disappointing to me. Many of us came over here because we hoped you would not be subject to outside pressures to ban questionable content.

I understand the /v/truejailbait ban. They were explicitly encouraging people to post CP. But as a mod of /v/jailbait, myself and the other mod have been working diligently to ensure no illegal content is posted. We state very clearly on the sidebar what is acceptable, with a quote from yourself saying that we will not be playing wack-a-mole, and will comply with takedown requests.

If this is going to happen I hope it will only be a temporary measure. On reddit it started with /r/jailbait and similar subs and culminated with the recent FPH banning. I don't want to see voat go down this road. Perplexed as to why we came over if this is going to be the case.

:suicide:

Penguissimo
Apr 7, 2007

Alan Smithee posted:

why in the gently caress do you spend ungodly amounts of hours staring at pictures of the kind of people who disgust you?



because susie cagles drawings are hilarious

Bonfire Lit
Jul 9, 2008

If you're one of the sinners who caused this please unfriend me now.

surebet posted:

[–] lydia 361 points (+427|-66) 14 hours ago (last edited 14 hours ago)
I understand that you need to protect the site but this is very disappointing to me. Many of us came over here because we hoped you would not be subject to outside pressures to ban questionable content.
outside pressures like "going to jail"

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

InShaneee posted:

i love watching libertarians have to choose between their crazy ideals and real-world consequnces

assume a spherical libertarian of uniform density

poik007
Aug 16, 2006
Thinks Mother 3 is the best game ever
CENSOR SHIP!!!!!

toot toot

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

im the free speech absolutist moaning about the media saying mean things about him.

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

surebet posted:

But as a mod of /v/jailbait, myself and the other mod have been working diligently to ensure no illegal content is posted.

:psyduck:

it's a forum for posting nudes of 12-15 year old girls. when you delete the illegal content you are left with a blank page

TVarmy
Sep 11, 2011

like food and water, my posting has no intrinsic value

Heresiarch posted:

assume a spherical libertarian of uniform density

may I still say arm reduction as a punchline?

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
/v/honeypot

poik007
Aug 16, 2006
Thinks Mother 3 is the best game ever
/v/carlmarkforceiv

edit: oh wait no illegal content sorry

poik007 fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Jun 24, 2015

Jabor
Jul 16, 2010

#1 Loser at SpaceChem

Sweevo posted:

:psyduck:

it's a forum for posting nudes of 12-15 year old girls. when you delete the illegal content you are left with a blank page

he probably thinks swimsuit/school uniform shots are somehow less hosed up

JamesieAB
Nov 5, 2005
It's that time of year again, it's Porcfest!



See "What Happens When Govt Thugs Threaten Porcfest"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNKObXQ5uTA

Warning, it's a FreeKeene video so the obnoxiousness level is high and maywill increase your blood pressure.

Subjunctive
Sep 12, 2006

✨sparkle and shine✨

Sweevo posted:

:psyduck:

it's a forum for posting nudes of 12-15 year old girls. when you delete the illegal content you are left with a blank page

I think that one is "realjailbait".

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

Stanley Pain posted:

posting naked pictures of girls/women sitting is not pornography. it is art.

so what if they're sitting on penises? if sitting isn't illegal, how can it be illegal simply because a penis happens to be there, in fact, who are you to say that this random assortment of 1s and 0s

theflyingorc
Jun 28, 2008

ANY GOOD OPINIONS THIS POSTER CLAIMS TO HAVE ARE JUST PROOF THAT BULLYING WORKS
Young Orc

surebet posted:

But as a mod of /v/jailbait,

putting this at the top of my letterhead, going to include it whenever i write to my senator

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

Subjunctive posted:

I think that one is "realjailbait".

Well it is of course true that a detailed taxonomy of the precise shades of the philosophical universe of message boards created to propagate illegal images of naked children is absolutely the nub of the issue here and definitely constitutes a bulletproof defence of Voat's unshakable commitment to freedom of speech and the tittie pics of kids are just along for the ride. With Bitcoins. Any truly dedicated Voater would agree, in between seig heiling, hating fat people and paedophilia.

but whatever. I'm sure the key point we can all agree on is:

Jumley
Oct 10, 2012

There's hope for you yet.

Heresiarch posted:

i kept scrolling but it just wouldn't stop, like a sisyphean nightmare, forever trapped in an endless wall of sperg

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

Heresiarch posted:

a sisyphean nightmare, forever trapped in an endless wall of sperg

how long can thread titles be?

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

Herman Merman posted:

to be fair gbs

hmmm

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

Chris Knight posted:

how long can thread titles be?

"bitcoin: a sisyphean nightmare, forever trapped in an endless wall of sperg" is exactly at the cap

Boxturret
Oct 3, 2013

Don't ask me about Sonic the Hedgehog diaper fetish

poik007 posted:

CENSOR SHIP!!!!!

toot toot

Robawesome
Jul 22, 2005

CoinWallet.eu Stress Test Analysis (self.Bitcoin)

submitted 23 hours ago by CoinWalleteu

Yesterday, CoinWallet.eu conducted a stress test of the Bitcoin blockchain. Not only was our plan to see the outcome, but also to see how easy it would be for a malicious entity or government to create havoc for the Bitcoin community. As you will see from the analysis below, delayed transactions are not the only issue that Bitcoin users experienced.
Surprisingly, executing tens of thousands of transactions that correctly propagate to the network simultaneously is not as easy as we had expected. One of the methods that was used to increase the kb size of our transactions was to send transactions consisting of numerous small outputs (usually 0.0001) to make a single transaction of 0.01. A simple transaction is usually 225-500 bytes, while many of our transactions were 18 kb (A number which limits the blockchain to 5 transactions per minute). In our preliminary testing this was effective, however in practice it caused our servers to crash. Throughout the day and evening, our strategy and methodology changed multiple times.
Initially the plan was to spend 20 BTC on transaction fees to flood the network with as many transactions as possible. Due to technical complications the test was concluded early, with less than 2 BTC spent on fees. The events of yesterday were accomplished with less than €500.
Timeline
11:57 GMT - Transaction servers initiated. Thousands of 700 kb transactions completed within the first 20 minutes. Transactions were used to break coins into small 0.0001 outputs.
12:30 GMT - Servers begin sending larger 18kb transactions.
14:10 GMT - Mempool size increases dramatically. Blockchain.info breaks.
14:20 GMT - Our servers begin to crash. It becomes apparent that BitcoinD is not well suited to crafting transactions of this size.
14:30 GMT - Our test transactions are halted while alternate solutions are created. The mempool is at 12 mb.
17:00 GMT - Alternate transaction sending methods are started. Servers are rebooted. Mempool has fallen to 4mb.
21:00 GMT - The stress test is stronger than ever. Mempool reaches 15 mb and more than 14000 transactions are backlogged. The situation is made worse by F2Pool selfishly mining two 0kb blocks in a row.
23:59 GMT - 12 hours after starting, the test is concluded. Less than 2 BTC (€434) is spent on the test in total.
The following graph depicts the entire test from start to finish: https://anduck.net/bitcoin/mempool.png
Observations
Delayed confirmation times and large mempool buildups were not the only observation that came from our testing. Many more services were impacted than we had initially envisioned.
Blockchain.info
Over the past few months, Blockchain.info has become increasingly unreliable, however we are confident that yesterday's stress test had an impact on their website being offline or broken for 1/3 of the day. During periods where we sent excessive transactions, Blockchain.info consistently froze. It appeared as though their nodes were overwhelmed and simply crashed. Each time this occurred, the site would re-emerge 10-30 minutes later only to fail again shortly thereafter. Users of the blockchain wallet were unable to send transactions, login or even view balances during the downtimes. In response to our heavy Bitcoin usage, blockchain.info began to exclude certain transactions from their block explorer. This issue is explored further by the creators of Multibit, who can confirm that some transactions sent from their software were ignored by Blockchain, but were picked up by Blockr.
Bitcoin ATMs
Many ATMs operate as full nodes, however some ATMs rely on third party wallet services to send and receive transactions. The most prominent Bitcoin ATM of this type is Lamassu, which uses the blockchain.info API to push outgoing transactions from a blockchain.info wallet. Due to the blockchain.info issues, all Lamassu ATMs that use blockchain.info's wallet service were unavailable for the day.
MultiBit
Both versions of MultiBit suffered delayed transactions due to the test. Gary and Jim from MultiBit have created a full analysis from Multibit's perspective which can be read at https://multibit.org/blog/2015/06/23/bitcoin-network-stress-test.html
The outcome was that transactions with the standard fee in Multibit HD took as many as 80 blocks to confirm (Approximately 13 hours). Standard 10000 satoshi fee transactions took an average of 9 blocks to get confirmed. Multibit has stated that they will be making modifications to the software to better cope with this type of event in the future.
Tradeblock
With Blockchain.info broken, we frequently referred to Tradeblock to track the backlog. Unfortunately Tradeblock was less than perfectly reliable and often failed to update when a new block had been mined. Regardless, at one point 15,000 unconfirmed transactions were outstanding.
Bitpay
Users reported issues with Bitpay not recognizing transactions during the test.
Price
Increase of $2. Contrary to some predictions, we did not short Bitcoin.
Green Address
While this app was not hindered directly by our test, we did send a series of 0.001 payments to a green address wallet. When attempting to craft a transaction from the wallet, an error occurs stating that it is too large. It appears that the coins that were sent to this wallet may be lost.
Conclusions
From a technical perspective, the test was not a success. Our goal of creating a 200mb backlog was not achieved due to miscalculations and challenges with pushing the number of transactions that we had desired. We believe that future tests may easily achieve this goal by learning from our mistakes. There are also numerous vulnerable services that could be exploited as part of a test, including Bitcoin casinos, on-chain gambling websites, wallets (Coinbase specifically pointed out that a malicious user could take advantage of their hosted wallet to contribute to the flooding), exchanges, and many others. Users could also contribute by sending small amounts to common brain wallets.
We also learned that the situation could have been made worse by sending transactions with larger fees. We sent all transactions with the standard fee of 10000 satoshis per kb. If we had sent with 20000 satoshis per kb, normal transactions would have experienced larger delays. In our future stress tests, these lessons will be used to maximize the impact.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



I'm the team that spent "1000s of hours" changing /r/ to /v/

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

surebet posted:

[–] lydia 361 points (+427|-66) 14 hours ago (last edited 14 hours ago)
I understand that you need to protect the site but this is very disappointing to me. Many of us came over here because we hoped you would not be subject to outside pressures to ban questionable content.

I understand the /v/truejailbait ban. They were explicitly encouraging people to post CP. But as a mod of /v/jailbait, myself and the other mod have been working diligently to ensure no illegal content is posted. We state very clearly on the sidebar what is acceptable, with a quote from yourself saying that we will not be playing wack-a-mole, and will comply with takedown requests.

If this is going to happen I hope it will only be a temporary measure. On reddit it started with /r/jailbait and similar subs and culminated with the recent FPH banning. I don't want to see voat go down this road. Perplexed as to why we came over if this is going to be the case.

:suicide:

"i wanna look at child porn, but I want a rating for posting good stuff that i wouldn't get on 8chan"

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!
Hey, let's talk about things that aren't utterly ghastly to every degree! Just in from /r/bitcoin, a captain of industry says:

Please help a veteran of the blockchain wars down on his luck posted:

My boss wouldn't put up with me babbling about Bitcoin all day. I have since said "you can't fire me 'cos I quit" even though he did, set up a website and I do accept Bitcoin (and I never convert to fiat). Dear God could someone please call me and give me work, I'm living in the closet in my office and the rent is due and I remember what "eating" was like; perhaps if I have some food, my concentration will return sufficiently to spell properly. Please call. Please.

Until /r/buttcoin called it out, he was misspelling "edge" as "egde" in his logo.

divabot fucked around with this message at 15:45 on Jun 24, 2015

sharknado slashfic
Jun 24, 2011

AlbieQuirky posted:

same

toward the end i was hoping maria teresa would show up

I actually stopped scrolling a couple of times to see if Brazil or Harry Potter dots txt were posted in the text wall

Ron Paul Atreides
Apr 19, 2012

Uyghurs situation in Xinjiang? Just a police action, do not fret. Not ongoing genocide like in EVIL Canada.

I am definitely not a tankie.

divabot posted:

Hey, let's talk about things that aren't utterly ghastly to every degree! Just in from /r/bitcoin, a captain of industry says:


Until /r/buttcoin called it out, he was misspelling "edge" as "egde" in his logo.

it's like, it's so stupid it's probably fake but it would be such a pointless troll that you wonder if it's true

sinekumquat
Jun 12, 2005

the most dangerous philosopher in the west
College Slice

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

it's like, it's so stupid it's probably fake but it would be such a pointless troll that you wonder if it's true

fake sob stories to collect penny shaving pity donations is probably the largest use of changetip

divabot
Jun 17, 2015

A polite little mouse!

Ron Paul Atreides posted:

it's like, it's so stupid it's probably fake but it would be such a pointless troll that you wonder if it's true

Remember: declaring yourself a graphic designer - sorry, "creative" - doesn't require e.g. experience, talent, qualifications or any of that other statist oppression. No, all you need is a mobile phone, Gimp and the blockchain. Please donate employ. Please.

Seriously, look at that logo. It looks like he patched it up with MS Paint. I can tell from some of the pixels and having seen quite a few delusional motherfuckers in my time.

divabot fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jun 24, 2015

Tipps
Apr 18, 2006


party in the front

business in the back

FCKGW posted:

[–]boonies4u[🍰] 2 points an hour ago
Perhaps reddit should ban you for giving me directions to access these pictures of naked minors, lest they be banned by paypal as well.
What you did is essentially just as "bad" as what the posters of that particular sub is doing.


If we ban pics of girls we should just do a sitewide ban of guy pics as well. We can't have feminists fingerbanging to underage boys.

In fact, let's just ban ANY pic just to be on the safe side.

This is really just a censorship issue. There's porn of all kinds on every single site out there. There's BARELY LEGAL TEEN porn which is extremely popular. Hell, even Brooke Shields and Traci Lords put underage porn into MAINSTREAM MOVIES.

Sure we shouldn't be sexualizing naked children, but if you're going to start banning legal content just for the sake of hoping to catch illegal content, how is that any different than an officer firing into the crowd of a fleeing robber with a shotgun just to make sure he gets the bad guy?

Do just like any other site: do your DUE DILIGENCE to remove any illegal content just as any site would. But it's definitely not your responsibility to police ALL content. That's just impossible. Even 4chan is notorious for DAILY KIDDIE PORN PICS. but the mods remove them as soon as they can because they CAN'T be held accountable for other people's posts otherwise reddit would likewise be held liable for ANY instance of an illegal pic.

Even Iggy Azalea made a child porn video where she tried to seduce an underage little boy with her pussy. That was allowed on YOUTUBE. So let's not get ahead of ourselves here. It's really not about the images themselves as much as the gatekeepers in charge of SEXUALIZING THE CONTEXT according to their feminist agenda.

I've seen pics on reddit of parents and strangers posting pics of naked kids playing in a bathtub or near the shower. If ALL naked children are to be removed, those would fall under 'illegal'.

If something is sexualizing a child in an obvious manner, we can remove it, no problem. But if someone is using their feminist liberal agenda to say "THAT is sexual TO ME" then we should tell them to gently caress off. I mean social justice warriors support and still buy Lena Dunham's book where she admits to MOLESTING HER LITTLE SISTER. Except it's not considered molestation because the Social Justice Warriors are in charge of setting the context. Instead of Lena Dunham the CHILD MOLESTER touching her sister's vagina, it's warped into a fun childhood game of innocent curiosity. Again, it all depends on the gatekeeper's interpretation of events.

Our goal should be to stand against censorship, not give it an excuse to GROW.

But wait there's more!

Why is this girl allowed to create child porn for YouTube

To help voat in answering the legal question, according to the fucktard keyboard warriors on here, this girl is a child porn producer and YOUTUBE is her distribution center.

Conclusion: BAN YOUTUBE.

CASE CLOSED.

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prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band
i'm pretty sure traci lords's underage movies weren't "mainstream"

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