I notice that many of you have commented (because you can barely do anything else) asking why you don't have CCP (Comment Contribution Points). So I want to explain because I feel bad that this wasn't brought to your attention earlier.
Voat limits all new accounts for reasons of SPAM. To unlock your account you must earn CCP by commenting and having others upvote your contributions. It is orders more difficult for a botnet to unlock accounts with this requirement in place and is why we use this particular method.
For example: You need 10 CCP to make a submission or send a message. You need 100 CCP to unlock downvoat capabilities.
The reason you don't have any CCP is because the moderator(s) set a particular subverse property that prevents the earning of points in v/theawakening.
This subverse property is called: Minimum CCP required to downvote and when it is set to anything but zero three things happen (which are documented in the subverse settings. This information is also displayed in the sidebar so you can see what subverses have set what values):
- It prevents users who don't have at least X CCP in the subverse itself from downvoating content in that subverse.
- It prevents all submissions from showing up in v/all (basically making the subverse private).
- It prevents contribution points from accruing (This is an anti-farming measure).
No one has earned points in v/theawakening since this setting was set to 5.
I hope this helps you understand why.
Edit 5:
This post has been stickied again because people still have questions. This will be the last day of this sticky, I promise.
Edit 4:
Read #3 first. So here is my argument: They aren't super web savvy and reddit/voat layout is not that bad of a tool for what they are doing. They were directed to an image board. You all know that's a big jump coming from Reddit. The natural place is here. It's your call Voat always has been and always will be, but maybe we could learn a bit from them, and them us. Think about it.
Edit 3:
I'm just going to say that the back and forth I've had tonight with subscribers of v/theawakening have been the most pleasurable I've had on Voat. (Maybe I have low standards or you're just good people). I'm voting to keep them. Can we Voat? You owe me this one! ;)
Edit 2:
As @MAGAKAG2020Q mentions below and is important to note: This setting can not be instantly switched. It is on a time delay of 48 hours.
Edit:
More useful information here: https://voat.co/v/Voat/2722975
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White_pride_cis ago
Their mods were a bunch of faggots who fucked them over from the second they stepped foot in here. I bet a lot of them are well intentioned people, but Reddit authoritarian mods will continue to do just that. The ones that have stayed behind are actually pretty cool. Prost!
DawnPendraig ago
Thanks =)
Res_Publica ago
Assuming your response means you’re one of the recent refugees..
That fucking Neon dude is a sketchy motherfucker. I’m not saying this flippantly.. you honestly have a cult going on. I read some comments that freaked me the fuck out, and I went to his blog.
Please, for the fucking love of God, have some self respect. If you want to Larp about Q, fine, great. But don’t go signing up to have a boss tell you HOW to do it. Think for yourself. Neon basically tells all of you that he’ll do your thinking FOR you, and btw, buy my shit. He also phrases shit to take credit for the accomplishments of ANONYMOUS /pol/acks. Neon is a regular shitty nigger autist, not a weaponized autist.
If you MUST do your Q thing, have some damned dignity while you do it. The biggest thing about voat is, we may not be a bunch leaders, but we’re DEFINITELY not followers. A goat is a creature that will piss in its own face to spite you. They do not take orders.
Plant_Boy ago
Can I define Neon as a regular shitty Jew autist? Because he wants you to do as he says and give him sheckles for only his wares.
I would say anyone who follows him and actually buys his shit are the regular shitty nigger autists.
The Jew basically trying to make a quick buck while controlling you and the niggers buy without thinking because its shiny.
Res_Publica ago
And somehow, he tapped into the technologically illiterate boomers, who are too old and tired to think for themselves, and he’s trying to drain their retirements. It’s fucking sick. Neon gets the oven.
data57 ago
I fucking love you! Speaking as 1 of those technologically illiterate boomers! I feel so fucking used!
Res_Publica ago
The important thing is not to be too trusting. Trust means letting someone else do your judging for you. If you want anything done right, you have to do it for yourself.
I’m devoutly capitalist, but it sickens me how far some people will go to avoid working for their things. Whatever my skepticism about the Q stuff, it became harmful when “leaders” emerged and started trying to corral people to click on their blogs and buy their shit.
I work in a factory for my living. I’m in my 30’s and it’s what I’ve been doing since I turned 18. I care about being a producer instead of a consumer. The information revolution we’re living through is being destroyed by small minded, selfish charlatans. I don’t trust anyone with a blog that has ads on it, or even twitter accounts with too many followers, because they have deals proposed behind closed doors to act as influencers.
data57 ago
I completely agree! I'm still working. Im a nurse. But I've worked since I was 16 years old, and I'm now 61! I hate lazy.people who freeload ! And thankfully my kids have followed in my footsteps with their work ethics! Both of my daughter's are hard working capitalists and can't stand the libs! I really hope something comes of these changes Trump has started ! Before I saw the difference he was making I had no hope! But just the amount of people who are waking up gives me hope that perhaps we won't let them win. We'll fight to the death. I know I will, as long as I'm not the only 1 because what good would that do?? Seeing young people like you, and my kids, gives me hope that the true American spirit will live ON! You restored my faith that perhaps we will win. You and many of the free thinkers in here!
Res_Publica ago
Please understand that many of the good guys aren’t going to look or sound like good guys. We use profanity, we’re terse, rude and verbally brutal, even though a lot of it is sarcasm.
Being polite is a form of political correctness. Many of us have had a personal revelation that we were being controlled through it, that the actions taken by the marxists were carefully undertaken beginning in areas where if you stood up against them, you looked like a bad guy.
We shed caring about looking like a bad guy a long time ago, and we can’t SEE you when we write comments and posts to you on the internet. We don’t see a 61 year old lady, we just see words.
The biggest reason for a person to end up here on voat is that we can’t stand being made to filter our thoughts into politically correct language anymore. We’re tired of being obstructed by people setting up hoops that we have to jump through to speak.
It’s always worse when there’s a flood of new people. The more the new people complain about our language being offensive, the more offensive we’re inclined to be. But if you stick around, you’ll find that there are a lot of people here who live according to the values that you may have thought didn’t exist anymore. People who like to build things for themselves, people who want normal families and quiet neighborhoods.
Helbrecht ago
"Being polite is a form of political correctness. Many of us have had a personal revelation that we were being controlled through it, that the actions taken by the marxists were carefully undertaken beginning in areas where if you stood up against them, you looked like a bad guy."
Good point. Many people seem to incorrectly conflate being "nice" with being "kind." There is overlap, but they're not the same thing
I like it here
data57 ago
I never mind rude sarcastic language! That is my life's mission! As a nurse, we see the most horrific things and believe me, people (normal people) would be shocked at what we find funny. I've actually literally LOL at some of the posts and comments on voat. I Agree that political correctness is what has put us in this bind we're in now. I appreciate a lot of the humor on here! Shit we weren't allowed to say. When I'm allowed to post, I've collected some memes that would fit right in here. Thanks for taking the time to engage me with this conversation!
Res_Publica ago
Welcome home.
TarantuLady ago
Butting in here... I’m new from Reddit. Thanks for the lay of the land. Gotta say the hubby and I feel at home here. Can’t stand the PC bullshit anymore & are glad to be free of it.
Res_Publica ago
There IS no butting in here. You just joined a conversation, there was nothing wrong about doing it.
It’s too bad your board got nuked, because I would have liked to see what the tone was like there. The feeling I get from the way you refugees speak is that you were tone policed pretty heavily. I tend to think that neon revolt guy was using all of you. He writes like a televangelist speaks. They also quote Q posts the way preachers quote the Bible. I’m not a practicing Christian.. but I believe in God. I’m a hedge-Christian, I guess, because I don’t trust anyone enough to ask them to tell me what the Bible means.
I think that guy really wants people to see him as the Pope of Q or something. And then to buy a t shirt. I mean, I swear a lot, but THAT is profane.
TarantuLady ago
Appreciate the response — thank you. I’m old enough that I learned to excuse myself when “interrupting” a conversation. lol Old — no, archaic — manners. Basic, but not necessary here in some respects, I see.😂👍
I gotta admit, my husband and I joined the r/GA board a long time ago, but I don’t go there anymore... Hubby permanently banned from posting at GA within a few months of joining, ostensibly because the mod had a hair up his ass that day. Other people have posted the exact same stuff as he did after his ban, so he wrote to the mod to ask about that...no reply. Asshole mod. I stopped going to reddit after that. I don’t play that banning game. Screw them. That’s why I find voat refreshing. No walking on eggshells. No snowflakes turning you in.
The Cult of Q. Yes...a bit worrying. I am skeptical, but I read everything and file it away in the back of my brain. It may make sense someday...or I may never think of it again. Q is that way for me. I read it all & file it away. In Q I see an online ”entity” pulling people around by a virtual ring in their noses. I see a figure that ONLY has good news. I see commandments to “trust the plan.” Etc... Sounds like a psy op to me. One to keep the thinking Patriots at bay. We want something done about the corruption, so we’re beingvyold it’s happening. But...is it?? WhoTF knows?
Yeah, I’m a potty mouth...but trying to not be so much of one. Good luck to me...lol
Res_Publica ago
I’m with you on the general approach to conspiracies. It’s outrageous what my brain managed to file away, and I’m thankful that the partitions seem to be holding up well enough that it doesn’t all melt together.
I despise social pressure. Things are true, or they aren’t, completely independently from how people feel about them. I can’t really ever be a member of any group, because it always gets to the point where groupthink takes over and people compete with eachother to promote an orthodoxy and rise in “status” in the group. Status is fucking retarded.. You’re right or you’re wrong independently from your status, but on the merits of your arguments.
Swears are words with special emphasis. They’re colors on the palettes with which we paint our ideas, so they may cross from our thoughts into the aether. It doesn’t do anyone any true good to restrict the colors they can paint with.