It would seem like you're a relatively new user. A long time back when Reddit was a little more purge happy, Voat was being inundated with spammers that would open subverses and use bots to raise their CCP so that they could spam the site with Anything (trojan links, free advertisement links, political pages, etc.). Not only was this annoying, but the financial costs on the Admins was going through the roof. To save the site, and to save their wallets, the admins put in place restrictions on new users (at one point it would take 50 or 100 CCP before you could make a Submission to any Subverse). This tactic has proven effective at deterring spam bots, reducing the costs on the site, and making Voat a more pleasurable experience. While the Submission restriction has been reduced to 10 CCP, it's still an effictive technique to keep the peace per se on this site. Once you hit 100 CCP, you get the ability to downvoat people, and users who get that ability utilize it to help protect Voat from Spammers, or users who try to circumvent the site rules by starting upvote farms. This is why the Voat community came at odds with the recent Redditfugees.