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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A Catalog of Voat Subverses (no longer maintained but still helpful)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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[–] yah5 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
Things I'm starting to hate with a passion from reddit:
[–] poppysquash [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yeah, i don't use facebook or other social media but i hoped that the 14 year olds would go flock there... I was once 14 and it was cool, but I really want to move on to a website where the majority are well out of high school.
Factually correct information battles were the worst. People just went silent or never replied if you brang in facts, and half the arguments were conjecture vs conjecture. Maybe only once or twice have I seen people back up their statements and proceed. Otherwise like you said, you'd be downvoted to invisibility.
Reddit as a use of an advertising platform was annoying. I tried to stay out of it but it was hard to
[–] imrdy_win_ur 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I agree completely. I am curious to see how this site plays out. I also spent almost all of my time on reddit lurking. I didn't seem to care what was said on most sub's. But I didn't like the way certain sub's like news, world news or conspiracy were being controlled, censored and influenced by the moderators. We will see. They can say what they want. Without control of the moderator it may stop the censorship. Hopefully without the corporate control at the top we will have what redddit was a few years ago.
[–] poppysquash [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah, the worst bit of it is that we could be censored and not really know about it until after the fact. If you look at undelete, conspiracy and friends, people have only figured out censorship and deletions after a bit of investigating. Imagine what we're missing or what's being squashed before we can find it.
We need automatic logs of moderator actions. Heck, i'd say it's not too far for any moderators actions to be visible, as it relates to or occurs on the subverse.
[–] DorkJedi ago
I would say anyone tagged as a mod has to create a mod account. No user mods.
Mod accounts are 100% transparent. Click a mod, you can see every post, action, PM, etc. No ability to vote, either.
If a user is a mod, that mod is linked to the account clearly. (user account contents retain normal user privacy). One Mod account per user account.
[–] mintbanana 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Well the mid level shit on reddit is smart. The top level shit is dumb. And the bottom level shit it stupid as FUCK.
Meanwhile on voat its all mixed up. Its a different site for sure.
[–] Rubashov 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I agree with most of what you say, but I have observed in the past that hoping a community remains "small" is not a healthy mindset. If we are achieving our aims of an open and free place of discussion, naturally the community is going to grow. A feeling of the 'old guard' being unwelcoming towards new users quickly spoils the conversation, and is it itself just another way of stifling free discussion, eventually resulting in the dreaded groupthink that has been a key factor in our move here.
What is of vital importance is to uphold all of the principles that make the community great in the first place, and welcome those who share our vision for the future.
Also hi guys, nice to find you all.
[–] poppysquash [S] ago
On a fundamental level I agree with you. Nothing is worse than trying to join a community you just found and would really like but being turned away because you werent a member for a long time.
However the basis of reddit and voat having karma means that once a community expands, you have the well documented phenomena of the community moving towards fluff content. In my mind, this is an even worse fate than what you described in your post. hence I'm a fan of keeping the community small or the barrier of entry high, only to filter out trolls. Yes I do realise it will also filter out the speed of lower-effort individuals but in my opinion that's okay as a trade off.
TLDR: removing karma would be a great experiment.
[–] OldRedditGuy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hi @poppysquash
I think that if we keep the measures to keep decent voat (Mod's logs, limit upvoats an downvoats)... reddit could have been saved if reddit devs moved their ass and did this stuff like Voat Devs
[–] CaffeineDrip 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
So true. Stuff like THIS really sets it apart from the low effort crapola on Reddit!
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[–] poppysquash [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Hence why I think we shouldn't have karma. Don't display it, even personally. We don't technically need visible points anyways.
It'd be different. I know that forums and such were it's time based have too much crap, but theres definitely space for a forum like website which organises by popularity. Most forums never used points and there pretty fine
[–] toptum ago
Ya that is one of the reasons I decided to stop. I thought back to when I first started using Reddit a couple years ago. What made it an awesome place was smart content and interesting people. Now I just go there to be entertained in the same manor as watching Jackass. I don't think I can put it any better than junk food for the brain. That's really what it feels like. It's like my brain grew, but with a whole bunch of useless shit.