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!
voatbakescookies ago
putt was just trying to explain in layman's terms why their collective assholes felt a burning stretched-out sensation and why the other goats were busy filming it and selling it on pornhub.
OsoCovfefe ago
Some of the folks who wandered in here at the behest of Q or others thinking to follow Q simply had no previous experience with very free free speech, some might have considered it all a bit much. That's not a judgement, just saying ,many did live in isolation bubbles from the perspective they chose not to be subjected to what they see as vulgar or in some cases obscene.
Very few of us had the skills of an anon or even adroit forum veterans, and being honest/polite sorts we/they default setting to expecting others to be so, if everyone shares the same Honest government desires here.
Mods who exercise their powers are almost always a-wholes.
A good number of migrants did wander into the chan board and seem shocked by this place...but partly that's because they did not really expect reddit to toss them and partly they were part of a Q proof in real time. Add in the fact of being lost and hitting that Free Free speech right in the kisser...well some of us honestly had no idea. Not all, not a majority...but some yeah.
NiggerOfFaglandia ago
Yeah, well I noticed many of the new Q people in here are also in the NiggerCuck voat group.
cosmyccowboy ago
i came here as a Q follower from the great awakening redditt site... it is true the other site was nothing but a cheer leading site and as soon as you deviated from the approved thought line your post would never make it to the board! i tried to post a thought that disagreed without any profanity and it was immediately blocked...
OsoCovfefe ago
I know, reddit has always been a very slanted place, it simply offered people like me a place where I could be seen/heard by a large number of 'others'. You and I don't need to explain why hillary bad/Trump Good to each other...we need to speechify to THEM. reddit gave us that place...people don't wander thru VOAT or the chan boards.
I left other media long ago, never had a twitter for instance, so reddit was good for exposing others to my self. WWG1WGA
TitanThinkTank ago
LOL, what a looser, this is not a freedom website , this is a website that help SJWs down vote good people into oblivion. you PSYHO !
OsoCovfefe ago
I have no idea why people worship the upvote/downvote, reddit does, this place does. Yeah this place is not 'freedom' in the sense one must kiss some native azz, let them hear what they want to hear then they lift restrictions... Still it let's one speak freely, even goof speech as what I think you hurled at me. SJWs are bothering you? MY goodness, the horrors!!
TitanThinkTank ago
instead i refuse to cooperate and do whatever i want as much as i can; and i also use multiple socials, So middle finger to Voat.
OsoCovfefe ago
Not sure what you said to me but as I considered necessary years ago when I enlisted...I Served for your ability to say whatever it was. Have an upvote, looks like you rode up on shoals.
WWG1WGA
voatbakescookies ago
Except this is the Crux of your problem. You are assuming that you are honest/polite when just the opposite is true. You are no different than white Knights living in an echo chamber of your own private thoughts. In your mind you're honest and polite to girls, but in reality you're a dishonest, self-serving asshole whose dysfunctional behavior has never been publicly scrutinized or even revealed.
You guys come in here thinking you're championing free speech when you don't even know what constitutes free speech. Yet you arrogantly assume you are the moral Authority on the subject.
I think a lot of you guys learned pretty quickly that Free Speech isn't just good intentions, neither is it merely offensive potty words and it certainly isn't hijacking free expression and suppressing critical opinions.
Free Speech means that all ideas are allowed to fall under public scrutiny. This is how we judge and decide which ideas get promoted and which ideas deserve to get stripped of their power.
You cannot make a moral judgment about an idea unless you have a moral standard upon which to make that judgement. And if others are not allowed to scrutinize the standard you're employing, then that is a glaring indication that the standard itself is immoral.
Truly moral standards have no need of protection, suppression, or camouflage. True morality doesn't hide because its job is to reveal that which is hidden from view. This is why math is the only Universal standard for Morality. It is the only way we have figured out how to expose hidden motives and reveal ethical errors in judgement.
You guys have been living on Reddit for too long and assumed that they were a free speech platform just because they initially allowed you to voice your views. You found out the hard way that they were obviously not what they were purporting to be. But you came here with the same holier-than-thou thou attitude that you adopted from reddit's own culture of self-righteous indignation. They certainly couldn't teach you the concept of free speech because they didn't practice it themselves. So it's understandable that what you would bring your self-serving views with you to voat. But just as you abruptly discovered that your ideas were condemned by The Gatekeepers of Reddit, that should have told you that Reddit doesn't gain the moral authority over you just by disagreement alone. Just as they judge your words by their own hypocritical standard, you are no different than The Gatekeepers you're condemning. Which really means that you have to examine your own standard for freedom.
Freedom of speech depends exclusively on the right to express all views, not on how offensive the views may be to your standard. This is an important distinction that most people don't fucking understand. And this is why most people with good intentions end up becoming tyrants by virtue of being trapped in a self-imposed echo chamber of bullshit. This is what white Knights suffer from, and this is what Reddit suffers from. This is the cancer that we are currently fighting today on the internet, and eventually we'll be fighting in the streets over it as well.
nigger 1 + faggot 2 still equals cocksucker 3. Pseudo-intellectuals will focus on the qualifiers that determine how they feel. Valid intellectuals will focus on the substance that determines what they see. because what you see should determine how you feel, and not the other way around. Otherwise you become a very dangerous person to everyone around you who will be subject to your self-serving emotional standards of expression.