content: You appear to be confused as to the post I'm referring to. It's this one: https://voat.co/v/pics/comments/1165222 As you can see, the link goes directly to an image file. It's https://i.imgur.com/eDVenNR.png And the risk of vote manipulation is real regardless of the rules of a subverse. You really think people are going to hijack /v/pics so they can get away with posting animated GIFs? If a post is highly upvoted then the community wants to see that type of content. I'm telling you, this is how Reddit started fucking itself up. Mods that invented too many rules and then ignored what the community actually wanted to see. Mods on Voat are janitors, not owners.