I got the sticky up. /v/HistoryPorn

I also added some proof.

Consider subbing! Apologies for losing my temper when another one I didn't even know was part of the effort showed up here and admitted to a coordinated campaign against our verse then arrogantly said I should help him. I almost never lose control of angry feelings but two weeks of this coordinated attack followed by the guy here who could not see any problem with making rules for our verse then trying to enforce them underhandedly was too much. Wish we had met under different circumstances. Thank you for the answer but I really felt embarrassed posting it - the whole thing amazes me. Why wouldn't they just join the existing verse? That is what I and any reasonable person would do.

https://voat.co/v/HistoryPorn

--edit--

A small taste of proof collected I would like to discuss with admins. It involves a confession to doing on purpose everything I have asked them over and over to please stop:

see sticky on /v/HistoryPorn

**Total admission to PMing our actives and telling them there is a rule where they must avoid our previously happy verse.

Do you want random people trying to ruin your happy verses because they know "better" than everyone else.**

This is the "pix" network doing this to all verses they self-righteously decided to replace.

If you really look into them there are so many of them modding each other's verses, and associated accounts which are obviously alts, it is a big mess. Admins need to look into their behavior.

How would you like your verse treated like this by duplicitous unannounced strangers who have decided they simply deserve to replace your verse by any means?

-pre-edit-

I have been the most polite gentleman to them until they came in this thread to fucking gloat

This is a lie but he is very good at sounding official about it. He then tells them to post in the newly created verse he literally just created, and refers to his sub as approved through voat policy.

I have asked him twice to please stop and he laughs and makes fun of what he is doing.

IMHO trying to poach users from an established, active sub, over a year old, and send them to a new sub that he created so he could be the moderator is wrong and he should be IP banned.

I have proof of his activity and would like to share it with someone who will do something about this. He is also pretending to have "official authority" and "only his new sub is approved."

He has not just damaged a year old existing sub that he should have just joined instead of creating a duplicate of it so he could power trip as the moderator, but he is essentially misusing the authority of Voat and the admins by peeling away members by claiming his new sub is the new approved location to participate in and users need to stay out of the healthy existing sub.

This is just so wrong on so many levels, especially responding with derision to my requests for him to please stop.

I know of no way to deal with this other than to IP ban this person from Voat with the sternest message. Because he could just start doing it again in a few weeks and I will never know unless a member tells me again. --see the problem--

There is no way to know how many PMs he and his buddy have sent to my users, or if he starts doing it again later. Again happy to share PMs with an admin willing to stop this permanently where he takes glee in attempting to destroy a healthy sub over a year old just so he can be moderator.

The reason he is giving is that Voat has officially ended the use of my sub's name as official policy and users must leave. Which is a complete and utter lie.

Please help!

--edit--

Holy shit, I am furious at the audacity and disrespect.

One of the users outed himself here and admits to knowledge of it and suggests I SHOULD HELP HIM REDIRECT ALL MY USERS TO HIS SUB!

His username is @RobinsonCroesus and he admitted to this in this thread and thinks I should help him.

Almost everyone came here to avoid having other people's opinions and preferences FORCED ON US, yet that is what @RobinsonCroesus expects.

UN FUCKING REAL.

I will out the one who got caught in /v/historyporn since he is openly admitting to doing this shit in this thread below.

The user I caught was @Empire_of_the_mind

The other users involved that seem to turn up with him I cannot yet prove are part of the conspiracy to remove users into subs they "just happen" to OWN AND MOD - but they are so self-righteous THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY I MIGHT NOT WANT THEM ENFORCING THEIR PREFERENCES AND KILLING A YEAR OLD SUB.

PROOF IT IS A GROUP CONSPIRING AS SOON AS I CAN RELEASE OTHER NAMES I WILL, BUT FOLLOW THESE TWO AND YOU WILL FIND AT LEAST TWO.

\ THIS USER IN THIS THREAD I DID NOT EVEN KNOW ABOUT BUT PROVES CONSPIRACY TO MOVE USERS INTO VERSES THEY CONTROL

previous edit

I now feel fairly certain these messages are being sent to other people who contribute to other established verses that have nothing to do with mine other than they were also popular Reddit copies, telling contributors to leave and that only the new alternatives are legitimate verses.

This looks like an attempt at moving a lot of users out of established subs and into their new ones. This is happening to other verses and the mods have probably no idea.

The other thing - they are succeeding at making their new alternative verses active. So it has nothing to do with the verse I moderate having "dumb users." Some of you may be having your verses attacked and not know.

Alternatives to EarthPorn, Art, Music - etc. Its like they read a list of what was promoted at Reddit.

--edit3--

I have no idea of the motive for this, jealousy, control, maybe they are convinced they truly can do everything better.

The tactics they are employing to pull accounts from the old established verses to their new copies should result in a ban.

If they make 20 copies of every verse and draw users through quality submissions and content along with a post on newsubverses that should be fine IMHO - It is the act of using lying and social hacking to destroy established subs which should result in a ban.

It is social hacking they are employing, by the book. I don't think the admins would be cool with people hacking users on this site.

Not to mention the increased server load created by unneeded duplicates of working subs that offer the exact same function already. Their verse topics are identical to successful existing verses.

LAST EDIT

I am so fucking infuriated right now.

One of the users outed himself here and admits to knowledge of it and suggests I SHOULD HELP HIM REDIRECT ALL MY USERS TO HIS SUB!

His username is @RobinsonCroesus and he admitted to this in this thread and thinks I should help him.

Almost everyone came here to avoid having other people's opinions and preferences FORCED ON US, yet that is what @RobinsonCroesus expects.

UN FUCKING REAL.

I will out the one who got caught in /v/HistoryPorn since he is openly admitting to doing this shit in this thread below.

The user I caught was @Empire_of_the_mind

The other users involved that seem to turn up with him I cannot yet prove are part of the conspiracy to remove users into subs they "just happen" to OWN AND MOD - but they are so self-righteous THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY I MIGHT NOT WANT THEM ENFORCING THEIR PREFERENCES AND KILLING A YEAR OLD SUB I HAVE PUT ENERGY INTO AND EXPECT MY HELP AND SUPPORT IN ENFORCING THEIR PREFERENCE SITEWIDE AND TELL ALL MY USERS TO PLEASE LEAVE AND GO TO ONE OF THEIR SUBS.

WE LEFT OTHER SITES TO ESCAPE THE FUCKING NANNIES TELLING EVERYONE WHAT TO DO

They feel they have the right to make a FAKE rule, pretend it is site policy, and that only their so-called "PIX-NETWORK" of verses are users allowed to post in, hinting that non-compliance may get our contributors "consequences" if they do not move all activity to the "PIX network" and leave HistoryPorn immediately.