[iLoch]

I don't think minimaxir was "dissing" voat.co, just stating facts. As for voat's success, I can't see how it can ever hope to supersede reddit - or even come close to competing with reddit - given that it is indeed a blatant clone. There's no real redeeming qualities of voat that are not already present on Reddit.

[rjbwork]

I personally am not using voat yet, but think that the fact that ModLogs are totally public and open instead of being hidden away and largely controlled by a couple of cabals of users is a huge plus.

I don't see voat as being a long term viable thing though, since it's just one kid in college and the recent surge of users was largely driven by an exodus from reddit over banning politically incorrect speech.

[koko775]

Harassing people and subreddits whose moderators encouraged and supported harassment go well beyond just "politically incorrect".

[minimaxir]

In fairness, I will admit my recap was more terse than my usual HN posts. Mostly because this particular startup deleted-then-resubmitted their Show HN multiple times yesterday.

This time I decided to be more constructive. :)

[Shorel]

And digg was 'inspired' by slashdot and reddit stole digg userbase.

It's the community and moderators who make the site, not only the technology.

Therefore all redeeming qualities lie in the respective users of those sites, and less in the programming.

Voat is just starting and reddit is perfectly capable of performing a 'digg' and alienate its users.

Let's wait and see.