First off welcome, I am ContentProvider and my goal is to provide quality content to /v/uncensored along with Flagger (the moderator). You are welcome to post anything there without fear of edits or censorship as long as it is legal. Now on to why I made this discussion. Many of you came from Reddit, as did I, and you will find that there are differences here which I support fully.
The main difference you will notice at first is that upvoats and downvoats are limited. The limit is directly tied to your contribution to the site. I love this as it prevents people from signing up and just going on a spree of up/downvoats. So the more you contribute to the conversation the more up/downvoats you get. I dont believe in downvoating (neither does Flagger) and personally have pledged to never downvoat anything but how you use the power is up to you. You need 100 contribution points (gained from comments) to downvoat and your upvoates are limited daily by how many contribution points you have.
I really like this system as it helps fight against groups trying to just get things buried or on the front page that they like. It is more of a community effort to bury or front page something here.
Another key difference is you can see how many things people have upvoated or downvoated by looking at their profile. Again I love this as it lets people know who are just trolling with downvoats and who are actually trying to help the community and participate.
Many people think voat is completely censor free and that is not true, the mods on voat can and will moderate their subs as they see fit. I urge you to simply not contribute or subscribe to any sub that you believe has too many harsh rules or a sub that you believe the moderator is censoring.
Last but not least donate if you can, Atko has created this site and needs some help paying for the servers, currently about 50 euro a month but that will go up with popularity. Also feel free to post any questions you have and I will answer if I can. Also feel free to post anything you like to /v/uncensored today for a free upvoat. This is a 24 hour only special and once again welcome and please contribute all the quality material you can to voat. Thanks for reading, Flagger and myself will be keeping an eye out for all you and cant wait to hear what you have to say.
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[–] JRAW493 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I just ran into my Upvote/Downvote limits. Once you reach a certain amount of karma does it become unlimited in terms of upvotes and downvotes or does it gradually rise in stages that correlate with your karma?
[–] Flagger 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Good question, initially once you hit a certain contribution point threshold your upvotes were unlimited but that has recently changed. It is now a sliding scale where the more contribution points you have the more voates you have. Of course you still have to hit the 100 to be able to downvoat at all but as far as upvoates go it increases with your contribution points. Glad to have you!
[–] JRAW493 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Thanks for the info. There wouldn't happen to be a user guide available for new users coming over from reddit?
[–] Kabuthunk 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Thanks for the info man. Yep, wandered over from Reddit a bit ago, figure I should keep my access to information as open as possible. I figure the best way to support the place is to keep both open and anything I post in Reddit, I try to post here too. Got a few subverses started, and contribute when I can.
I'm hoping this place will eventually become a healthy, viable alternative to Reddit. It's still in its infancy now, but all it needs to do is grow. Links, subverses, and time... that's all it takes.
[–] Flagger ago
Glad to hear you are contributing and attempting to create new subs. Glad to have you and keep it up!
[–] Flagger 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Thanks for posting this up for me CP, I am out of submissions for the hour. Welcome to all! If you have any questions just holler.