This is just a quick message for anyone visiting Voat for the first time.
We have a known blocking issue in our code base. This means that the site is being a spoiled rotten no good son of... often will toggle off for about 10 seconds and then turn itself back on.
It truly is the most annoying bug you can imagine and we are just so happy to have it along for the ride. To make matters worse, response times are very poor right do to traffic.
So heads up, it's a little like a goat track around here right now.
For two guys with fulltime jobs it is not easy to dedicate the time to find such an obscure bug. As we often do, we have to apologize.
Many apologies everyone. We hate it too.
What we don't have at Voat:
- Server Farms
- Engineers (or even employees for that matter)
- Infrastructure budget
- Marketing department
- Salaries ;)
What we do have:
- Freedom of Speech
- Annoying bugs
- Goats
Anyways, just wanted to say welcome to any new people and we hope that what we have outweighs what we don't have.
If you have the means, please consider donating. Every bit helps and means a lot to both of us. https://store.voat.co/donations
https://voat.co/v/announcements/1330806
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TheGunslinger ago
I need upvoats to be able to upvoat?
Rotteuxx ago
You need 100ccp bfr being a vetted goat.
So get 100 upgoats on you comments & you're clear to fully participate.
We make our shills work hard on getting alt accounts going here at Voat.
LuminaryAziraphale ago
But upgoats are so hard to come by.
Thomascro83 ago
What's that horribly popular ass song? Oh yeah..... work work work work
Cameron ago
come to a thread early enough and you'll get to 100 in one fell swoop
lastresort09 ago
Well we better make sure everyone has enough then!
Flux ago
It was much harder with less than 1000 people on the site total and it crashing all the time. You guys are lucky!
BB-3 ago
Lol
weezkitty ago
Not really. I mean I've been upvoted over 28000 times and have given over 50000
Voopin__Voopin ago
here, have one. :)
dynamiteVacancy ago
Not if you keep posting. I've been on here three months and got more CCP than comment karma on my (now terminated) 3-year-old plebbit account.
orange_viper ago
"You have reached your hourly comment quota. Your current quota is 10 comment(s) per hour."
:( - I wasn't even trying to get 100ccp, I just post a lot of shite.
Also, what does the little blue number in our profiles mean? Doesn't seem to correlate to anything...
dynamiteVacancy ago
Yeah that first part really sucks, but once you get past that you'll realise how much it keeps the spammers from ruining things. And the blue number is actually a tally of how many voats you've given out! You can see everyone's number of upvoats and downvoats to posts and comments in their pages. Pretty neat, huh?
orange_viper ago
Ah okay I see - thanks, and also it's pretty easy to circumvent. Just create a new account and upvote all your comments. Upvoting should really be disabled for new users too.
dynamiteVacancy ago
Yeah it feels like it but I guess they just want someone to not be able to do a lot of damage with a single account without discouraging new users with all these restrictions.