Highlight differences between private messages and posts
editorial posted by 517 days ago in SuggestionBox
 Since I'm still relatively new to ValME, a suggestion would be to make more of a distinction between private messages in the inbox and what is actually posted/visible on the actual original post. Th...
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[PROJECT] New Logo Concept for valME
editorial posted by 781 days ago in SuggestionBox
Hello valME funs! Don't you think it's time to change valME logo? I've think it's the right time to do this. If you like to concept logo press like  it to support it. We can't see the rainbow wit...
Image of valME.io - now with picture carousels and lightbox. Maximize your images and let them slide across the screen (subtitle: geeks are funny)
valME.io - now with picture carousels and lightbox. Maximize your images and let them slide across the screen (subtitle: geeks are funny)
editorial posted by [A] 831 days ago in GettingStarted
While working with a user who intends to take advantage of valME's latest functionality to setup your own website with a custom domain (don't forget - we'll help you convert your current website for...
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valME.io - now with custom domains, including SSL/https support (and a bunch of other improvements while we were in the code). Take that WordPress and Tumblr!
editorial posted by 839 days ago in GettingStarted
I'm very excited to announce valME just rolled out some major enhancements. If you run a blog or forum elsewhere and pay $60 annually, check out what we can now offer: Custom domains, including...
Suggestion for latest activity
editorial posted by 845 days ago in SuggestionBox
Would it be difficult to add an option to limit latest activity to posts? It would make it easier to see what's new.
ValME needs user tagging in posts and comments
editorial posted by 861 days ago in SuggestionBox
I think it would be useful if valME would have the option of tagging people in a comment, just like FB does. For instance, if I am writing a comment and I mention a person in it (by writing down the...
CSS change for Bootstrap3
getbootstrap.com link posted by 1037 days ago in SuggestionBox
It looks like the main container is set as a "container-fluid" which gives full width, but the rows do not need to have "-fluid" on them for bootstrap3. Suggest that the following...
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Making images responsive (shrinking automatically on mobile)
editorial posted by 1197 days ago in csstemplates
A question was raised by someone as to how to make images responsive on mobile devices. valME.io uses Twitter's Bootstrap for its .css, and it's wonderful. To make images responsive, you only...
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The genesis of valME.io - what were you thinking?
editorial posted by 1272 days ago in FAQ
Social networking is great. Well, it's great for people who like to be social. Come to think of it, it's great even for people who don't like to be social. Social networks, from...
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Creative Commons licensing template
editorial posted by 1295 days ago in csstemplates
If you support Creative Commons copyright licensing, you can use this as a footer: <style> .footer { margin: 0; text-align: left; color: #686868; font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;...
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Template with blue headers, line underneath headers, div to move images right and left, blockquotes with dotted-lines and shading, footer gray
editorial posted by   1303 days ago in csstemplates
I'll be honest. I'm not sure the best way to go about putting templates up, titling them, describing their characteristics or how to use, etc. I hope someone who has ideas will post them so t...
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Smith's Reef
editorial posted by 626 days ago in 2gringosincaribbean
Monday, October 18, 2010 I well remember while hoping that you don't that in our last post I said I was going to start making smaller posts more frequently. And it was my intention. But as some wi...
css templates would help submissions
editorial posted by 1305 days ago in SuggestionBox
It's great that you allow .css to be included in posts but I've a suggestion. After writing my first (significant) post, I think people who want to make blog posts look nice will want to use...
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"La Famille Express" revisted
editorial posted by 626 days ago in 2gringosincaribbean
Saturday, April 3, 2010 Winter has been showing those signs of moving off to where Winter goes when it leaves here. Drifting South, on its ancient yearly mission to climatically re-polarize our fr...
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Bugaloo's Conch Crawl
editorial posted by 626 days ago in 2gringosincaribbean
This post should see some more tropical-like photos uploaded for our readers in the far north. For us that's anything north of Mexico and the Bahamas. We still shudder when we remember those years of...
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About us
editorial posted by 626 days ago in 2gringosincaribbean
El gringo La gringa Dooley
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Revised css guidance
editorial posted by 926 days ago in csstemplates
valME had a major upgrade yesterday. There are a few important changes regarding .css/style sheets. In the past, we've allowed users to add <style> tags to their posts and comments even thou...
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Responsive videos template - make sure users can see the full screen of the video on multiple devices
editorial posted by 1236 days ago in csstemplates
Based on this excellent idea, some of us have been including style sheets (.css) in posts to make content look a whole lot nicer. However, I noticed that videos weren't showing properly on posts when...
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valME transaction costs
editorial posted by 1261 days ago in FAQ
Transaction costs are currently set as follows, but may change. (Yes, of course, if they change, we’ll update them here.) Also, sponsor accounts have the capability to change the prices of post a...
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My New Year's resolution is to become organized. How do I move image files to a new directory/folder?
valme.io link posted by 1300 days ago in FAQ
Admittedly, it's a bit confusing. Our development environment consists of an Apple II (a great box, BTW), a dusty IBM PC XT that's running MS-DOS (our pre-alpha test environment), and a box...
Image of Uhm, did you notice that there's an /alpha in your URL? What's that for?
Uhm, did you notice that there's an /alpha in your URL? What's that for?
editorial posted by 1313 days ago in FAQ
Uhm, did you know that we're currently only testing the system right now? You're going to see problems. Sometimes you're going to go to a page and get kicked out because w...
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Why can’t I post into the /all community?
editorial posted by 1313 days ago in FAQ
Because you can’t. /all is an amalgamation of our entire community (sans /removed). We don’t want it to become a random dumping ground primarily because it’s way too difficult to e...
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Why can’t I make moderators the same level as me? We’re all equal in my eyes.
editorial posted by 1313 days ago in FAQ
With deference to Orwell, but some are more equal than others. If you’ve spent any time on the Internet, you know that disagreements occur. Heck, you should know that if you’re more than 6 mon...
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How old do I haz to be to use this site?
editorial posted by 1313 days ago in FAQ
Dude OMG. u so shdnt b here. Idk wut ure thkn. Obviously, if you’re asking the question, you’re already skating on thin ice, don’t you think? We’ll start off with the obvious: our user agr...
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A sub-community is no longer consistent with the value I’m offering in my community. Where’s the freakin’ eject button?
editorial posted by 1313 days ago in FAQ
While technically feasible, we’ve haven’t yet included one. In the spirit of “can’t we all just get along,” we first really want you to try to work it out with the sub-...
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You removed my content because of a wrongly alleged copyright claim. Who do I bust up?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
Easy killer. If you’ve read our FAQ on DMCA takedowns, you’ll see that we’re not happy to be in the middle of this dispute. In fact, we think most copyright laws are insane. The la...
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Where do I send a DMCA takedown notice?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
(Sigh) We understand that sometimes our users are going to put up something that was created by someone else. Candidly, we’d prefer you contact the user directly and work it out but, because...
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What’s a project?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
We don’t mean to be rude, but what are you even doing on this site if you don’t know the definition of project? Oh, sorry. You’re trying to understand what the project checkbox is for when s...
Image of Hall of Shame? What is that all about? I’m not a spammer – get me off this list.
Hall of Shame? What is that all about? I’m not a spammer – get me off this list.
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
Well most unfortunate one, there aren’t just spammers on our “most unfavorite” page. Anyone who had more than two posts or comments flagged and subsequently rejected by moderators within the la...
Image of You lead us to believe you’re using the Reddit algorithm, but you’re not. What gives?
You lead us to believe you’re using the Reddit algorithm, but you’re not. What gives?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
If we have led you astray, we apologize and we’ll come clean. Yes, the front page algorithm that is labeled reddit is a slight modification of the algorithm we understand reddit uses. The algo...
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How does front page ranking work?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
For the communities, pretty much however the community owners and moderators decide. We provide you capabilities to adjust which posts appear on the front page, as well as in what order. We’re...
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What’s a sponsored account?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
We’re certainly glad you asked. We recognize there are companies who use blogs for marketing. Frankly Scarlet, we don’t care if you’re marketing a product, service, or idea. As long as it’...
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I’m mischievous and intend to take advantage of you in some way of my own device.
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
Thanks for letting us know in advance. (rolls eyes) If we catch you breaking any part of our user agreement, or doing anything that suggests deceit, fraud, or harm to anyone, we’ll remove yo...
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I want to delete my account.
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
Harrumph. Well, OK. We’d certainly like to know with what you were dissatisfied and what we can do to keep you (which you can tell us at support@valme.io). However, we must respect your decisi...
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Do we track you?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
Short answer – yes. We use the terrific open source package Piwik Analytics, which places tracking code on each page, as well as tracking some of the buttons you click. Additionally, some of t...
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What’s a Bitcoin? How do I purchase karma and get real money out of this thing?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
To paraphrase our grandmothers, "Such a question you should ask!" It's not too surprising if you haven't heard of Bitcoin. There are lots of great videos that discuss it but, if you want the...
Image of Your site looks like a “me too.” You’re just trying to make a better Reddit.
Your site looks like a “me too.” You’re just trying to make a better Reddit.
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
Uhm, is there a question here? Don’t get us wrong: we think reddit is awesome. They were one of our inspirations. We are supportive of their technology, their business model, their goals, their...
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Do you allow multiple accounts?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
We do (and we couldn’t prevent it anyway, even if we wanted). However, what we do not allow is using multiple accounts to perpetrate fraud. We don’t have any problem if you want to have differ...
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Why does it cost 1 karma to upvote but 2 to downvote?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
One of the problems with downvoting is that it’s quite easy to censor someone’s content if you just want to be a troublemaker (aka troll). Don’t like what a particular political candidate has t...
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I found a bug, but I’m not evil. Who should I tell?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
You’ve found a problem on our site. (blushes) Yeah, perhaps we’re not the most adept coders, to put it mildly. Thank you for not telling the world so someone who is evil can break our site and fr...
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What are analytics?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
What? You don’t have access to a dictionary? But seriously, if you were to build your own blog, you’d want to gather information on who is viewing it, right? We thought so. Granted, lots...
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What’s a modqueue? What are moderators (mods)?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
Spam is a problem on the Web. A very, very big problem. Many companies make a ton of money selling spam filter solutions just for email alone. Community moderators are there to manually keep the comm...
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What’s this whole honors thing about?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
You like to associate with people who value what you value, right? For example, you get together with friends every weekend to cheer on your favorite team. Or to discuss a book in a book club. Or to...
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I want to be a sub-community of x, but the owner won’t let me. What do I do?
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in FAQ
Can’t we all just get along? So you have a small running group in San Francisco and want a community where you can motivate each other by posting personal running times, routes, and progress. Yo...
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Privacy Policy
editorial posted by 1314 days ago in GettingStarted
As we indicated in the user agreement, we're leveraging what reddit put together as it seems reasonable (not to mention it served as a guide for the way we built valME). Your privacy is genuinely...
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User Agreement (aka Terms of Service)
editorial posted by 1315 days ago in GettingStarted
We didn’t have enough money to hire a lawyer to write our user agreement. Besides, we’re not fond of lawyers as the majority of them seem to cause more problems than they’re worth...
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What are the differences between community types: public, restricted, and private & restricted?
editorial posted by 1316 days ago in FAQ
You might want a community for only a select group of family members to see your children’s pictures. Selecting a community type of private and restricted means only you, and those you specific...
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How do I get to be a default community?
editorial posted by 1316 days ago in FAQ
It’s sometimes lonely to join a social network. It isn’t that you haven’t any friends (well, maybe you don’t) but, rather, you haven’t yet joined any particular communit...
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Why do I need to subscribe to a community?
editorial posted by 1316 days ago in FAQ
Well, you don’t. Subscribing to a community puts their content on your home page. But, unless a community is private, you can view the community’s content by going directly to their commun...
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How valME works
editorial posted by 1316 days ago in FAQ
You post stuff. People upvote it. You make money. It's very simple. It's reddit, but with cats that make you money. We call it monetary applause. Where did we get the idea? Here. How man...
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Can anyone start a community?
editorial posted by 1316 days ago in FAQ
As long as you know how to use a computer, we don’t see why not. Even if you don’t know how to use a computer, someone who does could do it for you. Yes, there’s a small karma fee to do so, but...