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.
peanut-butter ago
These rules are depressing-I just wanna lurk & post when I feel like it...Can't understand why you guys make things difficult
grubbypixie ago
I mostly lurk and comment occasionally. I still have very little in the way of CCP because I'm usually in lurker mode. My occasional comments got me above the required CCP eventually. If you are just lurking having to upvoat and downvoat isn't a big deal - You can still lurk without that ability.
@Rotteuxx is right - It discourages sock puppetry and self brigading.
Rotteuxx ago
Because we encourage participation & it discourages people from creating a bunch of alts to self-brigade posts... as far as I understand the reasoning.