Voat had remarkably little promise and followed the standard tragectory of sites designed to clone a site for angry users jumping ship. Moot, founder of 4chan,

Voat had remarkably little promise and followed the standard tragectory of sites designed to clone a site for angry users jumping ship. Moot, founder of 4chan, had some good comments about the phenomenon during his resignation: >To single out 420chan, it’s actually one of the imageboards that I have actually respected over the years. I think that what's kind of defined a lot of image boards, even going back to the first kind of spin off from 4chan (which was 5Chan), 7chan and all these others. They tend to spin out based on a decision I make, or they don’t like me, or they don’t like 4chan, or they don’t like 4chan culture or whatever. More or less over the years, most of those sites have kind of fizzled out. >While 420Chan started similarly to 5chan, (the admin didn’t like me), I really respect that he wanted to have a bunch of topics that 4chan didn’t have ... ["]4chan is never gonna have a drugs board, or a wrestling board, or all these other boards that I want, and so we may as well create a site that caters to that.” >I really respect the fact that he really took it in its own direction, it doesn't look like 4chan. The other sites ... created a whole era of open source clones of 4chan that offered 4chan in a box and emulated our front page and everything. >People, for whatever reason wanted to make 4chan that wasn’t 4chan. Voat is just the latest "reddit that isn't reddit".