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Choose your own karma/voting categories
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Someone was wondering about valME's voting buttons... Through our moderation features, you not only can select up to five karma types, but you even get to specify the names. From your Moderate dropd...
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valME transaction costs
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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?
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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...
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Uhm, did you notice that there's an /alpha in your URL? What's that for?
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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(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?
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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.
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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...
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You lead us to believe you’re using the Reddit algorithm, but you’re not. What gives?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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...
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Your site looks like a “me too.” You’re just trying to make a better Reddit.
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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)?
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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?
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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?
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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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What are the differences between community types: public, restricted, and private & restricted?
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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?
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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?
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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
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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?
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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...