Most practically speaking? Assumed the subreddit bans and controversies of 2015 were going to cause Reddit's Digg moment and lead to an exodus of users to Voat

Most practically speaking? Assumed the subreddit bans and controversies of 2015 were going to cause Reddit's Digg moment and lead to an exodus of users to Voat (in the same way Digg's redesign boosted Reddit), but only attracted the controversial ones due to a large majority of the site not caring. Then found itself struggling to attract less... politically charged users/communities as the site became known for the racism and far right views there. That's probably the killer really, a good community site needs a large audience of people who aren't constantly fighting over culture wars and who can create interesting content about everyday topics as well.