[–] retardicus [S] ago
This doesn't make sense. Number one, who really gives a shit about upvotes ? Maybe people care and I just don't know it. Number two, if aww is a place for animal pics, then I guess that's where the animal pics belong. Maybe I'm misusing this site. I see 'front'. That's all I do. I don't subscribe to anything. So the aww pics are all over front. It's weird... Anyway, I'm kind of a dick. I apologise.
[–] Hand_of_Node ago
Number one, who really gives a shit about upvotes ?
People who want to create fully functional accounts. And I doubt it's a thing here yet, but search: how much is my reddit account worth
[–] retardicus [S] ago
No. I want to know what's with all the goddamn cats. You're leading me down a long windy road with a dead end.
[–] draaaak 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I'll try to explain the point and process of voat farming for the purposes of shilling of the joint...
Accounts with high CCP are taken more seriously than accounts with low or negative CCP, and are useful tools for engineering consensus by controlling what information makes it to the front page, and which comments make it to the top of a post's comment section. Shills like having high-upvoat accounts as it gives them an air of credibility, which helps them in their shilling efforts. Additionally, if they have over 100CCP, they are able downvoat other users' posts and comments, which they do to silence their opposition.
Basically, people voatfarm by posting stuff that normal non-shill users will upvoat reflexively, like cute stuff, which is easy to like, or anti-nigger/jew stuff, which blends in nicely on voat. If the shills are working as a team, they also circlejerk-upvoat eachother's posts and comments to further boost their CCP. If they have enough accounts with over 20CCP they can upvoat brigade their buddies' posts and comments to no end, sending them to the front page, and enabling them to manipulate and control the "narrative" that other voat users see when they use the site. When they have over 100CCP, they can downvoat brigade non-shill posts and comments, effectively burying news and information they don't want people to see. It's all about control of information.
You are auto-subscribed to a set of general subverses when you make an account, I suggest looking around a bit to find other subverses that may interest you. There's a lot of good content on voat that you won't see if you don't subscribe to non-general subverses. If you click on the "subscriptions" link in the upper left corner of your screen and then click on "discover" you can find a list of more subverses.
You're no more of a dick than many of us here. I didn't even notice.
[–] retardicus [S] ago
Thanks for taking the time. I have to really think about this. So what tho, it's like a big sweat shop of users in Israel somewhere? Or like antifa dudes in a basement? How organized are they? And why attack voat? It's like setting rat traps in a dumpster.