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I can understand not liking someone and downvoting them when you see a post. But when you stalk someone's account to downvote every comment they've ever made and will make, that is when I have a problem with it. There will be no rules or guidelines, if I feel you are abusing the downvote button, I will reverse every downvote you've ever made. Plain and simple. If you feel like you have a downvote stalker, PM me. If that turns out to be the case I will fix the problem ASAP. Already reversed the votes of one account, so if you have extra votes this morning that might be why. Also worth mentioning I removed the 10/10 voting limit. I know that seems counter-intuitive, but I received a lot of complaints and tbh I am not a fan of it myself, so we'll try this out instead.

We all know @itsgettingcloser likes to delete comments in his subverse. Personally, I view user created subverses as a private space where the owner can dictate how it's ran. You can block him, and his subverses and not be bothered by it. But there are others who believe sub owners should not have this power, which I understand. Curious what the community thinks about this. Should there be a balance of power? Or should sub owners have full authority? Like I've said recently to someone else, on these types of sites, I view going into /all as the wild west, where you are not guaranteed a safe space, or anything really. The difference is these sites don't default to /all, like this site does, and instead either show you your subscriptions or show you the default subs, which enforces this images of user created subverses being 'separate' from the main site. What are your thoughts on this issue?

Edit: I've decided to leave as is. If you don't like a user or a sub then simply block them. Create your own sub. This way leads to the least intervention on my part. I will probably switch the default view to /front, which display default subs, or your subscriptions. Curate your own content. There is already an option available if you prefer /all.

Click the domain inside the parentheses on a topic to sort by domain. Or use the url format /v/site?domain=www.whatever.com ie https://www.voat.xyz/v/site?domain=files.catbox.moe

Is a feature missing? Want a feature? Does something annoy you?

Post all your complaints and suggestions regarding the site here. I'm gonna try to knock out a good portion of it this week.

Thead is locked. Please create a new thread in this sub or /v/voatdev for suggestions/fixes.

Fix this stupid shit already. It pisses me off every single time it Happens

Why do the message inboxes not have a way to show unread messages only? My inbox has always shown there are unread messages. God. Fucking. Damn. Fix this shit

Emojis now display, but more importantly no longer cause posts to fail, resulting in lost text.

That took way longer than expected, ran into some issues but we're good now.

You can view total votes received/given by any user on their profile page.

The options for reporting a thread are

o This post is spam

o This post breaks a site rule

o This post is adult content and not tagged adult

o This post is gore content and not tagged gore

o Other

To prevent abuse you need 100 points on your account before you can submit a report.

Also I made a privacy policy https://www.upgoat.net/privacy_policy

Edit: The same is now the case for submissions as well.

I've brought this up before, and I think it's high time to implement a system that is at least similar to what voat.co had. Here's how it worked on voat.co...

- If a user had less than 100 CCP, they couldn't downvoat comments or posts.

- If a user had less than 10 CCP, they couldn't make posts of their own.

- If a user had negative CCP they were restricted to a certain number of comments per day/week depending on how deeply negative their CCP was. The more negative their CCP, the less often they were allowed to comment. Remember @Edgelord666? His CCP was in the negative thousands, and he was only allowed to comment something like once a week.

- All users, regardless of their CCP/SCP totals, were also blocked from posting more than 3 times to any given sub in a 60 minute period.

My suggestion is to implement this system, or one similar to it, but have it also apply to negative SCP (something voat 1.0 did not do). Here's why...

On voat.co, a new user could pretend to be a non-spamfag for just long enough to generate enough positive CCP (more than 10), enabling them to make posts. Then they would go dark for two weeks, after which point, none of their original comments could be voated on (either up or down), thus securing their ability to post with that account, forever. They would then use their post-ready account to spam the site, and, so long as they never overtly violated TOS, no one could stop them from spamming lolis or animal gore or whatever their "legal", non-TOS violating spam was, no matter how deeply negative their SCP got.

So, @system, I am suggesting the implementation of the voat.co system with one addition: negative SCP restricts users from being able to make posts. Maybe between -1 and -10 they can post once per day, and anything lower than -10 restricts them to once per week. I don't know how you would prefer to break it down, but there needs to be some kind of SCP based restriction in place to prevent spamming. It is not possible for you to moderate the site 24/7 all on your own. A system like this will give voat.xyz an immune system similar to what voat.co had, which enabled any user with over 100 CCP to participate in protecting the site from spam, and in some cases illegal, content. CCP and SCP can and should function as more than just an internet virtue meter. These point totals can and should be used to protect the site from malicious activity.