I don't get it. How does a 6 month old user with no submissions or comments have full voting rights?

Fuck that. I like it here.

The only time I worry about points is when I see a shitty post and can't downvote it! Soon...

Points are like females, chlamydia!

It's a tally of times I made someone stop and smile with something fun, enjoyed something I found interesting too, or take a break from their day to enjoy a documentary or post I shared. It shows me that somewhere someone enjoyed something I did and maybe made their day a little brighter. It's the same reason why I give people a small smile when I walk past them in the street even when I don't feel like it - maybe they are down too and a little bit of humanity and human interaction made them forget their problem even for a split second.

People turning internet points into a battle ground is how reddit got cancer mods and SRS.

I'll admit that I haven't even figured out voat's scoring. I see several numbers by my name and on my info page, but don't know what they mean (nor care to look into it). The only part I understand are up/downvoats on posts and submissions.

Because I don't care. I care about my points suddenly disappearing because some mass downvoating may be happening, and that may be a problem for the site, not me. Now that i know what really happened, I'm ok.

I'm not here for imaginary internet points. I want this site to grow and become equal to Reddit, because I want my revenge over what happened to /r/loli . Everything else is irrelevant.

I don't as long as it doesn't affect my ability or functionality on this site. Beyond that, the number is useless.

Of course I care about points. They affect the visibility of posts and let you downvote, so they're actually useful. And it's kinda nice to know you've contributed.

The important thing is the amount of caring. There's middle ground between "I don't give a shit about your imaginary points" and breaking down in tears over -1.

You should care about the blues, they keep the community going

someone needs to know their value system is also everyone elses value system.

I honestly don't care about my total. I care when I accrue them, after I try to put a coherent thought together and it not only is understood but resonates, I love that. After that though, it's about as useful as sand on a beach. They don't signify all that much. I can't spend them. They just build up slowly for no real purpose but their own sake.

Well said, Teddy Kuntz.

I think he's been butt-rammed since the beginning of voat. That's how this place is. Unforgiving yet fun.

This submission is pure faggotry, but I'm proud of your new subreddit, so have an upvote because they seem to matter to you, which is fine, whatever floats your goat. As long as it gets people to contribute content I don't care what the reward is. Upvotes, karma, internet points, good boy head pats, smiley face stickers, whatever will attract quality content and discussion here.

I contribute money, others their time bug finding, others content. It's a community, we all care about different things, but are tied together by our firm belief in freedom of speech.

I'd like it if Putt made it an option to turn off points displaying on your profile as long as you're over the downvote threshold so you can still do your duty in the new feed and downvote spam and completely false information in threads.

I saw some guy post about coming from Reddit and the highest comment was someone telling him to fuck off, then he said something very reddit like and it was boring or annoying typical reddit. Just like a semi witty comment and it just reminded me of the incredibly fake way reddit talks in cliche's. The reason I like voat is because of how honest and straight to the point the people are. I don't feel like they're trying to sway me. I just think it's such a unique place where people say 4chan things with actual usernames, actual accountability. I really fucking love that

I care... I'm just not obsessed... would like to be able to downvote, but almost there... hell I lurked for months before making an account. But yes, you should kinda care :)

It's not the points, the points just represent that people like you. Who doesn't want to be liked?

This is something I've often wondered. If nobody cared about points, they wouldn't be there. Arguably it could be considered a form of gamification.

If i shit in a condom and shove it ip my dickhole, then it explodes and my dick gets so infected it has to be removed, BUT, i did it all as an "art piece" and it gains me the applause of a small number of individuals who have a "self mutilation involving faeces" fetish - that doesnt make what i did good, or of any value.

It makes me a retard who lost his dick being fucking retarded.

If you are so insecure that you need imaginary strangers on the interbutts to tell you your comment was "oh how witty!", you are pathetic, just craving validation from the literal lowest common denominator - internet personalities.

Fuck the points, id rather my comments say what i wanted to say - and if butthurt redditors want to downvote, they can go ahead. But even if some mouthbreathing Redditor here on Voat is shitting on about some spastic shit - i still rarely downvote. Cause im not Reddit tier.

Kill All Niggers

Haven't bothered reading the rule changes, haven't bothered giving a shit. Harvest season in my fucks garden still lookin bleak as hell.

I actually don't. I'm still not even sure how they work.

Do I like seeing my posts get up voted? Sure, it can affirm that others agree with an opinion or appreciate a contribution but do I care about my overall vote total? Not really, I would actually be interested to know what affect on behavior it would have to hide user point totals.

I don't know why but I love that second sentence. The first one is stupid.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

v/downvote

Post views certainly would be subject to manipulation. Isn't it views that drives most sites economically?

I lost about 800 points apparently. I'm less concerned about how many I lost, and more concerned about how many people have deleted their accounts since I joined two-ish years ago.

Also, holy shit, 800 points worth of people thought I was worth upvoating? Really? Jesus fuck, I'm just pullin' this shit out of my ass 99.9 percent of the time.

I don't really care, but it's fun to watch the numbers tick up. I lost nearly 2k SCP in the recent update.

I stopped focusing on submitting things when I started working on my bot, though, so I'm guessing most of it had to do with deleted accounts.

I did write a crossposting thing recently, so I could get it back easy enough >;3

Yeah, I didn't even know there were any restrictions until I read about it on here recently. Was it always that way?

I was trying to get 0 ccp but voat is just 2edgy4me, someone keeps upvoating all my shitposts.

This is like any social interaction. If an individual is overtly trying to gain praise from his, or her, peers, it's repellent. Deep down, everyone wants the praise and admiration of peers. Fuck, it's considered a need in Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

There is absolutely no way I could care any less about my 'Internet points' you faggot.

because if you sound like you do care about them, it exposes you as the attention-seeking person we all are

i agree with you dude. we're social creatures. we feed off of other people's praise. having that praise taken away from us feels like you aren't special anymore, which we all know we really aren't but its fun to pretend.

That's a long way to go. Besides, I want anarchy!

A vote for you, then.