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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"
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.
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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A Catalog of Voat Subverses (no longer maintained but still helpful)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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[–] PeaceSeeker 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
You edit your comments a lot, which makes it difficult for me to judge whether or not you're earning your downvotes or not. All of your comments seem completely innocent and the fact that you're receiving so many downvotes suggests to me that you are either posting really stupid comments, and then changing them, or you are being targetted by vote manipulators.
Since I view the first option as improbable, I'm going to go ahead and declare that someone has targetted you.
You've only been here for 11 days, so I don't see why you would be targetted in this way. Whatever the case, I'm going to make a report to /v/ReportSpammers so Cyn can maybe look into this.
Welcome to Voat. The worst thing that can happen to you here is to get negative CCP, in which case you can only post 10 comments a day. Better than being shadow-banned or having your communities censored or banned, like happens on reddit, but still unfortunate. It's a consequence of an anti-spam measure. Typically only spammers get negative CCP, and really "cancerous" personalities who seem to try to get downvotes.
You don't seem to be either type of person, and yet you alreayd have negative CCP, which is why I mention these things.
It also seems like you don't conform to the "dissident right" political orientation of most users here, which, if someone noticed this, might explain your downvotes - which of course is not acceptable. Voat needs more people who object to the hivemind so real conversations can be had. Stick it out and Voat will sort out whether or not you're being targetted.
Again, welcome.