Since a submission gets one point automatically, having one upvoat shows that it deserves to be "hot".
Since a submission gets one point automatically, having one upvoat shows that it deserves to be "hot".
On Poal, a young post with a negative vote count can appear above a very old post with positive vote count.
But on Voat, a post with equal or fewer points than 1 does not appear at all in the list of Hot posts, even if it was the first post since 2 years.
It is completely hidden from /hot.
On Poal, a young post with a negative vote count can appear **above** a very old post with positive vote count.
But on Voat, a post with equal or fewer points than 1 does not appear **at all** in the list of *Hot* posts, even if it was the first post since 2 years.
It is **completely** hidden from /hot.
(post is archived)