[Kodix]

If I recall correctly (it's down right now, not a big surprise) about half of the users are subscribers to voat's fatpeoplehate.

Those excellent people are the grassroots of the community you'd be joining.

[pixl97]

You may be forgetting that Reddit was built on the same 'shit'. A huge portion of the real content of Reddit was porn and other repugnant topics. The admins of the time faked a huge portion of their posts to form communities around them.

[Aaronontheweb]

My experience, having actually used Voat, is that this is not the case. I've engaged people in the /v/gaming, /v/programming subverses and everyone's been friendly and polite to me thus far.