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A Catalog of Voat Subverses (no longer maintained but still helpful)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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[–] Dick-Tracy 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
Same as any other site. The time will come when we'll move off Voat and go somewhere else.
[–] VernacularOracle 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
This. Every site has an expiry date and others' are just accelerated by an event. If a mass exodus does happen at reddit, you can bet they'll bring their circlejerks and memes along with them. If most of the user base is to be redditors, you can expect them to allow upvoat reddit-like content for familiarity and make themselves feel at home. It would become the norm, no assimilation would be needed and the karma whoring will be like picking apples from a basket instead of from the tree.
[–] Cosmic_Priapism [S] ago
Now is the time of the Great Reddit Diaspora.
[–] drogean ago
hopefully we will have a large base of people who recognize the signs that things are changing for the worse - memes, content appealing to the lowest denominators, censorship, corporate buyout, mod power abuse... etc
[–] dirkgently 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I'm in almost the same boat. User for over 5+ years, came over full time after the digg implosion, and steadily over the past 6 months or more I have been getting sick and tired of the shit I see over there, from the stupid ass puns that are the top of most big posts, to admins censoring shit because of the whole SJW mentality, to non censoring of subs that post illegal or borderline illegal shit until they called out on dateline or piss of major advertiser.
I still like to enjoy some cat pics here and there but the days of me putting up with the shit to get to the good is coming to an end. It used to be the good far outweighed the bad, not the scales are reversed.
[–] Dandy 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
It's all up to us. Communities on the net always tend to grow cancerous once they grow large so I'd say enjoy our fresh little hangout while it lasts. As for what we'll do when things get less comfy, I'll see what I'm gonna do when it actually comes to it. As long as you provide quality contributions the site revolves around you, and will subsequently crash and burn if it drives us golden boys away.
For now I'm gonna man-spread and take it easy, I suggest you do the same.
[–] Dick-Tracy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
If I manspreaded any further right now, I'd be doing yoga
[–] Cosmic_Priapism [S] ago
Haha cool. I figured this whole thing was a tentative project. I'm trying to think of ways that will bring some intelligence to the site rather than the "first comment" types. Think I'll sit back and "man spread", as you say, as well... with a cold one as I cup my genitals and watch this unfold and have no real effect on my life.
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[–] Cosmic_Priapism [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll try my best to submit quality content. I'm gonna go lurk some first to get the gist of the subverses.
[–] Nemesis 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Do note that Voat is still really young, so the content is not what it will be. Most things you can find here right now you can also find on reddit. The exception possibly being Atko and his tendency to actually interact with people here. The charm of Voat right now is mostly that it is free of some of the crap on reddit
[–] Swibble 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Stand up for your right to criticise from the beginning, I think that's what a lot of people here are thinking. People forgot to do that on Reddit and now only the concerns of a special few go undeleted. Circlejerks only take hold when people are hypersensitive to any hostility.
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[–] Swibble 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If someone gets shadowbanned or has their sub stolen for being an SJW, that would be fucking hilarious, but it's never going to happen.
[–] Fred 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The circlejerk here is about how much better than reddit it is. The meta bullshit is discussing how bad reddit is. /v/all is typically full of "OMG REDDIT IS SO BAD GUYS". 8 months ago when I started here it was the same problem. If someday the site gets a meaningful amount of users, maybe that will change. I doubt it though.
[–] UmEmily 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's odd to recommend Digg but they've renewed and there's a really nifty RSS feed called Reader which might interest you.
[–] crazyshinydiamond 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'm yet another person who was sick of all the bullshit. I loved opening up reddit and reading interesting stories, seeing funny pictures, hearing about space exploration. But lately it's starting to seem like there is some kind of hidden hand guiding conversation and banning users with different opinions. I couldn't handle reading another word about SJW's, Tumblr In Action, "feminism vs men's rights" - it was a feeling I had almost every day and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. All I knew was I needed a change, and bam I heard about voat. Let's all make this site a place for open discussion, a positive attitude, and most importantly -> great content!