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[–] Arotaes_Forgehammer 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Firstly it's 20 CCP and secondly it limits bots, sockpuppets, and forces new users to decide how to spend their upvotes. They have to decide on which content is quality and which is not.

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[–] JManSenior918 [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Whoops, thanks for the correction!

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[–] BananaBro 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

In order to leverage contribution from you. If you want to participate in voating, you need to contribute quality comments to the site.

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[–] Huntard 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The only thing I don't understand is the fact that only comments count and not submissions.

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[–] Arotaes_Forgehammer 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Anyone can repost shitty pics.

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[–] nonono 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I would assume to make it harder for people to create dummy accounts go upvoat their own posts.

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[–] xyzzy 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

For one it forces new users to get used to the culture of Voat before being able to vote. It also blocks spammers and suckputtets from influencing the voating system too much.

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[–] SpaceRosa ago 

It's to avoid people making sockpuppets to upvote all their shit.

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[–] huldu ago 

I would add to what other said that I believe it makes you comment and get a grasp on how the community works before actually using your "power" to influence it. It gives you some time to understand the rules and feel at ease.

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[–] ChillyHellion ago 

I think it's because:

  • Having no voating power teaches you to contribute comments, both to voice your opinion and because that's the only way to "unlock" voating.
  • Then having no downvoats teaches you to voice your disagreement with an existing comment rather than using the downvoat button as an easy "I disagree" button. Some comments still contribute to the discussion by asking questions that you already know and voicing perspectives that you may not agree with.

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[–] JManSenior918 [S] ago 

I understand the downvoting (or lack thereof) completely. I guess it's just strange to me the lack of upvoting. I don't hand out upvotes to just anyone, but 10 a day is very restricting. I also think it makes it harder to stratify different quality levels of content, because almost all comments have a very similar range of upvotes and downvotes regardless of what they're saying.

I guess what I'm saying is that it would (to me) make a lot more sense to implement a system like this after there is a large user base in order to screen people who come to the site just because it has become the thing to do.