drain is free and stays free. voting is the one thing you can do for it that costs nothing, and it doubles your own ai limits for twelve hours while you do.

where to vote

top.gg

a vote every twelve hours

discordforge

counted on its own

discordbotlist

counted on its own
each list counts separately, so voting on all three is three votes, and every one of them raises your limits again. drain is also on discord.bots.gg. that list has no votes, so it’s only there to find drain by.

what a vote gets you

that is the whole perk. no command is ever locked behind a vote, no feature is held back, and nothing you can do with drain today stops working if you never vote. a vote lasts twelve hours. ,ai limits shows whether yours is still counted, and ,votes says the same in a line.

reminders

,vote has a button under the links that turns the reminder on or off, and so does the reminder dm itself. drain sends one when your last vote has run out. if your dms are closed to drain, it turns your reminder off rather than keep failing. run ,vote remind on again once they’re open.

ways to type it

every command

none of these need a permission.

what drain keeps

one row per vote: your user id, the list it came through, and when. no names, no avatars, and nothing about what you do in any server. that record is drain’s own rather than any list’s, which is why the streak and the lifetime count are the same number wherever you voted. rows older than 400 days are deleted.
a vote can take a minute to land. the lists tell drain about it themselves, and one that is down tells drain late.