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20176472? ago

Voat has made these restrictions in an effort to mitigate the massive, professional DDOS attacks in which bots were creating bots as new accounts to participate in the attack.

Here's Voat's announcement about the attack:

Knock Knock * 1,000,000


Let your users know their free speech is under attack and these temporary concessions are necessary.