Hello and welcome to Voat!
Don't be a shy! Start making comments in here to earn your needed minimum 10CCP and then start a post to introduce yourself to other Voaters!
Please explore Voat to find subverses that interest you. If you don't find what you are looking for, perhaps you should create it! In addition, if you find a subverse that seems abandoned, you can request to adopt it. If you do create a new sub or adopt one, you can announce it. Once you have a subverse, you may want to add a custom theme for it.
You can disable custom CSS in your account management options to just see the default interface if you choose. Voat also has a Night Mode as yet another option and many users seem to prefer it! In here as well you will be able to add your email for password recovery (Voat will never use or sell this information).
Your Voat experience can be whatever you want to make it, so make the most of it!
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"
Contribution Points
You have two kinds of contribution points: Submission Contribution Points (SCP) and Comment Contribution Points (CCP).
- 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.
Votes are associated with your IP address: you cannot vote on the same post/comment using alternate accounts; only the first vote will be counted.
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A Catalog of Voat Subverses (no longer maintained but still helpful)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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[–] cobeast 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
I have a secret to tell you. No matter where you go there will be idiots and assholes. It's funny that you are complaining about people acting like reddit is one person at the same exact time you say the same about voat.
[–] Spix [S] ago
See edit.
[–] dontcaretoputaname ago
I think... though I'm not sure, they may have meant the Muslims were being represented as one person. I'm fairly certain that reddit's user base is still in the millions, and hasn't approached the 1.6 billion figure aforementioned.
[–] Thrashmandicoot 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Ironic that you lay a sweeping generalization on Voat that you claim lays sweeping generalizations on Reddit.
Do what you will, but perhaps you should calm your rhetoric when you speak the same language you claim to chastise.
[–] Spix [S] ago
See edit.
[–] venuspcs 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
Free Speech - means the right to say whatever the fuck you want!
The whole idea behind Voat is to provide "as much free speech" as they can legally get away with....as was Reddit for a long time!
Having made both those statements, I say this: "Don't keep abandoning sites on the internet cause you read something you don't like". If you continue to do that you will run out of places to visit on the interwebs. I suggest you instead, learn to ignore or filter then content to make it more view-able to you.
[–] Spix [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
That's fine, but the 95% of the Voat community seems to agree with these opinions which is my problem, see my edit (it's on a mainstream sub).
[–] venuspcs 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
There are over 45,000 people on Voat and only about a few thousand (different users) among all the Hate-Type groups....yep that is 95%!
[–] Chrissuit33 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I don't see any more of the negative elements here than i saw on reddit. Hope you find your utopia full of rainbows and kittens somewhere.
[–] im_back 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What? No unicorns nor butterflies? And you call it Utopia?
[–] WontBeSilencedAnymor 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I agree with you completely. I'm on my third account here with a strict "don't take shit seriously" policy. It's the only way to put up with the trolls, racists and outright cunts that come over on the last boat from reddit. At this point, I'm not sure which is the lesser of the two evils anymore.
[–] RedditDead2005-2015 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The only difference between Reddit and Voat is that Reddit allows Muslim bashing but censors anything critical of Jews or Israel. You should expect certain hot topics to have polarizing opinions - some even downright ugly and hateful. But at least Voat doesn't unfairly censor one side of the argument like Reddit does.
[–] CrashingAnalyst 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Don't think of voat as a single community either. It's a platform for people to post and share content.
The only difference between voat and reddit is that voat is heavily focused on not curating content whereas reddit is focused on building corporate relationships (at the expense of some content) in order to encourage different high quality pseudo 'sponsored' content. Or like they call it on YouTube, collaborations. It's how online marketing works these days.
But because of that it limits reddit's ability to be a free and open platform for content sharing, and voat has no such restriction, which makes it great.
[–] Sadistic_Bastard 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'm kind of with ya on that (hilariously, that's actually why I left Reddit for Voat), but I'm still gonna stick around. Good luck in your travels my friend. Ma all the gods of furious strong be with you as you crunch your opponents, and live like a windrammer as you fuck.