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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theNakedNecromancer ago
So, this brings up an interesting question:
If the mods remove this subverse property, do all of the upvoats suddenly count for all of its users?
heygeorge ago
The existing ones will not. New ones will start to count.
PuttItOut ago
This guy codes
heygeorge ago
Ha!
I can’t wait for the new update as I’m sure it will fix the nuked stickies issue and the smail bug (the one that redirects responses to my eponymous subverse instead of the subverse it’s intended for.)
think- ago
On a side note, the damn distinguish button often doesn't work. Any idea how to fix that?
@PuttItOut @Vindicator @EricKaliberhall
PuttItOut ago
Smart ass reply: Don't use it ;)
I'll look into it.
think- ago
@PuttItOut: To be more precise re the distinguish button bug: It usually works when we press it.
The problem starts when we leave the thread in question - when we go back, the 'M' badge is gone, as is the green colour which highlighted our names.
So we sometimes go back several times, press 'distinguish' again, the 'M' badge and the green colour show each time after we have used the button, but somehow it doesn't stick. :-/
PuttItOut ago
That is because of cache. I think comment trees are cached for 5-10 minutes
think- ago
?
But in cases when the green colour and the M badge disappear, they won't show again later (even hours later).
PuttItOut ago
I consider this a bug, it's just a low priority bug, but I still need to fix this, so don't think I'm not taking it as such.
Say you D a comment. Come back in a few minutes or refresh and see it's not D'ed. So you click D again. Well now it's removed instead of added.
Since it was saved as a D to the database after the first click, the second click will remove the D from it.
The bug here is that that particular comment is not updated in cache to reflect the D. Instead you need to wait until the comments themselves are reloaded and it will be pulled back with a D.
Does that make sense?
TL;DR: Only click it once. It's a cache thing. I'll fix it soon. ;)
think- ago
Ok, thanks very much! :-)
@Vindicator @EricKaliberhall @ben_matlock @Crensch: please see parent.
think- ago
LOL
That would be terrific!! Thank you!! :-) :-) Saying this on behalf of all v/pizzagate mods!
@Vindicator @EricKaliberhall @ben_matlock @Crensch @heygeorge
heygeorge ago
Nice moves! I like that Puttsy had a very similar initial response to mine. It really is the easiest fix!
heygeorge ago
I haven’t heard of that one. Who uses the distinguish button anyway?
think- ago
LOL - we should make you a mod after all, then you'd know..... ;-) We are almost getting mad because it's not fucking working every second time we want to use it.
Any ideas how to fix that issue would be highly appreciated.
@PuttItOut @Vindicator @EricKaliberhall @ben_matlock
heygeorge ago
No thank you, I am attacked frequently enough as it is! :D
We could add ‘moderator’ tags to y’all in the CSS, if you wanted to go that route. (And if you haven’t already done so; I haven’t really been paying attention.)
think- ago
Haha.
Well....we've discussed this, and tried it for two days, but since some mods didn't like it (including myself), we abandoned the idea in the end.
But Putt said that he would look into it, so I'm confident we might see the issue getting fixed now. :-)
heygeorge ago
I see; that’s why I was confused. I thought you had them, but then when they were gone I again thought that maybe I was in a different subverse and just confused.
Thank you for reading my pointless anecdote.
think- ago
Anytime. ;-)