Update: Poal.co/search now requires login. Site is increasingly locking down. Endangered history.

[Tallest_Skil]

Unpopular opinion: I like Poal.

The site itself? Like, the software? Sure. It’s not bad. The fact that the owners are leftists who ban all discussion they don’t like and forcibly prevent users from even viewing or replying to one another? Inexcusable. Impossible to actually use the site.

[MrPancake]

No; nothing to do with the software of the site. The problem with Goats is they go to Poal thinking it is Voat or Voat-lite. It is a privately owned Reddit. Voat's power comes from its open discord; the ability for people to argue openly and say what is on their mind. Poal's is in the quantity of information posted. Poal is a lurker site; a site to read articles and sometimes post a thought or two. Even Reddit (the only sub I use is /consipiracy) has it's usages. You can softly red pill some of the users; all the while knowing that your post may be deleted. I have not once had an account banned or a comment removed on Poal; because I understand its house rules. Besides; I never see that faggot Gabara or most of the disgusting SBBH crap on Poal which gives it a bonus. To recap; Voat is a public square, Poal is someone's private property, act accordingly.

[chrimony]

No; nothing to do with the software of the site. The problem with Goats is they go to Poal thinking it is Voat or Voat-lite. It is a privately owned Reddit.

The problem is Poal billed itself as a free-speech site in the same vein as the original Voat -- with some goofy rules around downvoting, theoretically to encourage more speech, but in actually is just a trap to trip up users.

The site is actually a hug box for the main administrator, AOU. Thin-skinned, censorious, and hostile to feedback. It's a clay-pot dictatorship. And the amount of admin abuse kept ratcheting up the longer the goats who flocked there put up with it. Self-respecting goats jumped ship to Voat.xyz, while the lazy faggot sheep goats remained.

[antiliberalsociety]

No; nothing to do with the software of the site. The problem with Goats is they go to Poal thinking it is Voat or Voat-lite. It is a privately owned Reddit.

The problem is Poal billed itself as a free-speech site in the same vein as the original Voat -- with some goofy rules around downvoting, theoretically to encourage more speech, but in actually is just a trap to trip up users.

The site is actually a hug box for the main administrator, AOU. Thin-skinned, censorious, and hostile to feedback. It's a clay-pot dictatorship. And the amount of admin abuse kept ratcheting up the longer the goats who flocked there put up with it. Self-respecting goats jumped ship to Voat.xyz, while the lazy faggot sheep goats remained.

Holy shit, we agree on something.

[mikenigger]

No; nothing to do with the software of the site. The problem with Goats is they go to Poal thinking it is Voat or Voat-lite. It is a privately owned Reddit. Voat's power comes from its open discord; the ability for people to argue openly and say what is on their mind. Poal's is in the quantity of information posted. Poal is a lurker site; a site to read articles and sometimes post a thought or two. Even Reddit (the only sub I use is /consipiracy) has it's usages. You can softly red pill some of the users; all the while knowing that your post may be deleted. I have not once had an account banned or a comment removed on Poal; because I understand its house rules. Besides; I never see that faggot Gabara or most of the disgusting SBBH crap on Poal which gives it a bonus. To recap; Voat is a public square, Poal is someone's private property, act accordingly.

Poal is reddit marketed as a voat alternative because no one is interested in yet another reddit clone with abusive powermods, they shadowban users and generally don't give a fuck. There's enough faggotry to fill a subverse: https://www.voat.xyz/v/MeanwhileOnPoal

It is not a cozy place with different house rules, it's a circlejerk with unwritten rules.

[MadWorld]

Just another side note, poal appeared to have closed its domain listing some time after 2021-05-03. You may be able to find a more accurate date, by looking up other domain names.