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Sub Rule: This sub is for making your introduction post as a new user and for welcoming new users in the comments; posts asking for or offering free upvotes is bad form, Off-Topic to the sub, and subject to deletion
Sub Guideline: Wheaton's Law; if someone is rude, ignore or let them know with your vote, mods don't police "politeness"
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- CCP is what allows you to vote on posts/comments and everyone starts with 10 free upvotes per day; the more CCP you get, the more you can vote.
- SCP doesn't do much for now but there are plans for down the road, and you get one free upvote with every post.
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Resources
FEATURED: A Guide for New Users
User Agreement, Privacy Policy, FAQs, and About
A Catalog of Voat Subverses (no longer maintained but still helpful)
The Founder: Atko's Did You Know? (old post with good memories)
/v/AVE Amateur Voat Enhancements (works but not maintained right now)
~PRO TIP 1: A great way to quickly gain CCP is to hang out here and greet other newcomers when they post. You are also helping them, so everyone wins!
~PRO TIP 2: You don't have to keep that password you created during the registration process--click the cog wheel by your name and change it!
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[–] AlderaanDuran ago
I made fun of you based on your eye-rolling introduction, and it turns out you are in fact an uppity nerd. See? It was easy to tell just by your long winded "I'm a freedom fighter for the internets" introduction.
So you're either at work doing the same thing, OR, you're not at work because you're unemployed, OR don't have a "big person" job that has regular hours where you would be working at this time of day. Which is it? :)
Welcome to Voat!
[–] rationalinquisition [S] ago
LOL. Apparently a "big person" job means you work 9-5. If that's how it works, I'll stick with having a little person job where I make my own hours.
You can justify why you made fun of me however you like, but the fact is you wouldn't have done it if you weren't insecure. People who are confident in themselves don't feel the need to make unprovoked attacks on other people. I posted the real reason I left Reddit in my introduction, and you assaulted me for it.
As for the "uppity nerd" part, I am a nerd and I make no apologies for that fact, so fuck off with your intelligence shaming.
[–] AlderaanDuran ago
Yet you left Reddit over the banning of a subreddit that does nothing but make unprovoked attacks on other people? So you defend them being "censored" and support their cause? But when someone makes fun of you it's bad. How come I'm insecure if I do it? I'm just standing up for my right to free speech and to say what I want like the people in /v/fatpeoplehate! You should be supporting me, not insulting me.
FYI: You can be intelligent and not a nerd. There's lots of different types of intelligent people. The one who sits at home playing video games constantly is a nerd, and normally they aren't anywhere near as smart as they think they are. That's you.