Glossary

Creds

Short for credibilities. The unit of credibility on this site. Earned by doing things people respect, spent on upvoting, posting, and staking. Not money. No cash out.

Like: arcade tokens that double as your reputation score.

Balance

The Creds you currently hold and can spend.

Lifetime earned

A separate counter that only goes up. Tracks every Cred you have ever earned across every action. Used for reputation gates - some actions need a minimum lifetime-earned figure before you can do them.

Like: total miles ever flown, regardless of whether you currently have any miles in your account.

Trust

The share of your past prediction rulings that survived review. Higher = your future predictions can attract bigger stakes.

Like: a referee's reputation. Get one call wrong on purpose and people stop trusting your whistle.

Story

A single news post. Either a link to somewhere else with a short title, or a short text post.

Upvote

Spending Creds to push a story higher up the feed. The Creds you spend go to the story's author. The longer you hold the upvote, the more you spend and the more you send.

Like: tipping a busker. The longer you stand there clapping, the more they earn.

Flag

Telling a moderator that a post breaks a rule. Flags do not auto-hide anything - they are a queue for moderators.

Vouch

Asking moderators to bring a killed story back. Costs reputation if you vouch carelessly for things that should have stayed dead.

Kill

A moderator removing a story from the public feed. The story still exists for its author and for moderators - it is just hidden.

Dead

A story that has been killed.

Penalty

A multiplier that lowers a story's ranking score. Applied automatically by domain or keyword rules, or manually by a moderator. A penalised post still appears, just lower down.

Poll

A multiple-choice question with two to ten options. One vote per person per poll. Costs a small amount of Creds to create.

Option

One of the choices on a poll.

Prediction

A claim about a future event with a deadline. "X will happen by date Y." Other players stake on whether X will or won't happen.

Like: a pub bet, written down, with witnesses, and an agreed deadline.

Agree / Disagree

The two sides you can stake on. Agree (green) means you think the predicted event will happen. Disagree (red) means you think it won't.

Stake

The Creds you put on one side of a prediction. Click and hold the left mouse button for Agree, the right button for Disagree. The longer you hold, the bigger the stake.

Pot

All Creds staked on a prediction added together.

Deposit

The Creds the prediction's author puts down when creating it. Returned if the author's final ruling is upheld. Forfeited if it is overturned.

Resolution

The author choosing the winning side after the deadline. Comes with a piece of evidence other players can check.

Challenge window

A short period after a resolution where any player can dispute the ruling. If the dispute is upheld by an admin, the resolution is overturned.

Payout

The Creds you receive if your stake won. Includes your original stake plus your share of the losing pool, minus the house and creator cuts.

House cut

A small percentage of every losing pool that goes to the site's house account. Funds moderation, hosting, and bounties.

Creator cut

A small percentage of every losing pool that goes to whoever wrote the prediction.

Bounty

A Creds reward attached to a question. Anyone can claim, hunt for the answer, and submit evidence.

Contribution

Creds added to a bounty's pool by anyone who wants the question answered.

Submission

A claimant's evidence and answer. The bounty's author reviews and either accepts (paying the full pool) or rejects with a reason.

Watchlist

Predictions you are tracking. You get a notification when their state changes.

Streak

How many predictions in a row you have won. Resets to zero on your first loss.

Notifications

Alerts about things relevant to you - new stakes on your prediction, payouts, comment replies, friend requests, moderator actions.