It's near impossible to judge whether these are spam or not, it's too easy to get under fire for approving one and not approving another one.

Also to be clear, these topics are OK, but we won't be accepting these communities to be featured.

Which submission and what button do you press?

One more thing: don't ask to be featured or your community will be evaluated last.

If they want points, yes

Yes, you need new ones

Thank you for this information and update.

It is sad that there's no Tagalog language in the selection. We cannot post article using our language.

Of course there is. If you don't see it in the list - add it here https://read.cash/account/languages

If you mean related to blogging (as in how to write you blog, how to host it, where to get ideas, etc...) - sure

What if related to what they do everyday, like blog on cooking, Blog on work something like that.

If you mean like a community where "blogs" on any topic is approved, then no, rule #2. The fact that they are all "blogs" doesn't make it single topic.

How can we know if the community is featured? Is there any logo or badge on it like [EXC]?

Yes.

Here's a simple rule of thumb. If you type your community name to Google - look at what comes up, that's approximately what should be in your article. You'll see information about "blogs", not the post about how many eggs did someone ate today. If you type "blogging" - you see information for bloggers - how do to "blogging". That's OK, yes.

Thanks for clarifying, I understand it now.

Alright. I will do this for guidance.

Use the dots menu (like the one you see here on the right), then "Remove from community"

ok thank you so much

Maybe, not sure yet.

Okay. I'll wait for more announcements from you guys :)

You can post to many communities. You can repost your articles to other communities, but that won't give you points if the points were already given for this article.

I see.. Thank you so much for your guidance.. 🙏🏼 Bless you all 😊

Better write other articles. Reposting I think is not good

Thank you.. I will do that 👍🏼

Are you an admin or moderator in that community? Which community? Which post? Links please

I am an admin of the Nature's Beauty Community. Someone who is a newbie posted an article in our language just before my notification on the regulations pops in.

Can you try again?

No, we won't deduct any points.

Already started

Select the languages you speak here https://read.cash/account/languages and then go to community settings to change the language of the community.

If the majority of participants can understand it - sure, why not. However I understand English and I don't understand Tagalog or Bengali - it makes no sense for people like me to participate in a community that publishes in these two languages. However, if they publish in two local dialects that majority probably understands somehow - sure.

Just to clarify, I can understand Bahasa Melayu(Malaysia and Indonesia), Kadazan from Sabah and English. One of my moderator is Dutch and the other one speaks Spanish. Will that be alright if we accepted all that language? But I have not seen any articles in Bahasa Melayu or Kadazan here. (No need to reply on this, I got the answer from comments below 😅)

Nice

I am not sure if I can make it here with this new rules

Surely, you have some hobbies. Something you do with your own hands? Do you watch TV series? Are you interested in space? Future? Technology? Maybe you can create a community with tips on how to write better (during your own research on how to do it better)? There are a ton of things that people can find useful for them, you just need to look inside you. We're just trying to make people be focused on helping other people, rather than just making money in the process.

By no means I'm a writer, I don't think that even https://read.cash/@Cain who is one of the most successful writers here considers himself to be a big-time writer. Just try to be genuinely useful and write things that other people will find useful and you'll find yourself at home at read.cash after the update. I frankly think that many genuine people including you will find it even more interesting.

Hobbies, perhaps singing and playing the guitar but I am not very good at it and it takes me time to make one song done. I watch do watch television, but none particular. Most are cartoon because of my two years old daughter. Future? I am interested in the future but what kind of articles would you be expecting about the future? I am going to dig deeper in me and see what I got. How about motivational writing? Will that do? I just wrote one article which I think is motivation articles but it is base on my thoughts. Let me know if that can be accepted, and I will fight for that kind of writing in my current communities. If not, I will try again until I meet your requirements. Thank you for making this update, it made me a bit down but I believe this is for a better future and I will work on it until I am out of ideas. I'll seek for your articles for guidance. If I can't find one, I'll be bugging you in the mail. 😅😅

Nice

Yes, you can

so, if the community isn't featured does that mean whatever we post on that community won't give us any point?

Yes. Anything that isn't forbidden by the rules you can publish on the site, but you won't get any points for it.

and also, what do you mean by topic... can you give me examples of what community should be publish our journal-like (eg: 'why i love surprises' , 'my daily routine' ,etc) article

There is no topic that is "journal-like" that we will accept, because 99.9% of this is something that nobody would read.

It should be about something useful to other people.

You can probably check https://read.cash/communities to see the examples of topics. Photography (as in how to take good pictures), travel, politics, specific religions, collecting coins, philosophy, psychology, cooking (but we'll be closely monitoring for content to be original, since most of the recipes are copy-paste), language learning, travelling to specific countries. We will sometimes accept local communities when they really revolve around local events (like what's going on in your city), but it should prove useful to participants, writing (as in tips to how write better, not "here's 3 lines that I wrote this morning"), history, art (again, will be decided on case-by-case basis, because basically you can call anything art and claim that any content is a form of art), parenting, COVID, cryptocurrencies, cryptography, hacking, technologies, future, aging, data science, relationship advice, design, programming, crafts, do-it-yourself instructions, short stories written by authors (on a case-by-case basis), hardware, nomadic life, computer science, meditation, science, magic, architecture, historical events, local travel information for tourists, 3D graphics, sci-fi, music, theatre, ...

I could go on and on, but it should be about something useful to other people. How I got up today and ate some eggs is frankly not very interesting to other people, let's admit it.

those articles that we published on community that wasn't approved to be featured, what happens to them? will we still get points in those or should we remove it there and publish it to the newly featured community? thanks in advance for your answer.

Nothing, you already got points for them and these points were converted to Bitcoin Cash, nothing will change (unless you delete the article, in that case we take 20 points back and you get negative points balance, which is expected, since we paid for the article and you delete it, we expect our money back :) )

oh i see.... i get it now. this is so cool. now we can only read articles that really is worth our time. thanks for the advice....

👍 I updated the article based on your question. Thanks! :)

thank you. it will be a lot help to newbies like me. i have another question though, im sorry, how would we know if our own community got approved or not. if it still havent notified whether it is approved or not does that mean it's still in the process? i have a community with no notification yet. the other was not approved. i need to fix it i guess hehe

You will get a notification, if you haven't - it's still in process. There are tons of communities, so it will take us days to go through them.

nice. I have time to moderate it then. hehe. Will the pointing system about articles submitted to featured and nonfeatured communities take effect now or after you're done with the process? cause I plan to submit an article to my own community that was not approved because I'm trying to meet the new qualifications of a featured community. You said that it may still be approved some time if it meet the qualifications so I'm trying to moderate it now too. I'm really sorry for asking so many questions, I really just wanna be clean in this website.

It will take at least a few days to implement the changes necessary for the updates to the points system, so it won't take effect for the next few days. Anyways if your community is generally good, but violates a rule or two that can be fixed (like there are a few articles in foreign language), we will usually give time to fix it (a week or so) after which we will re-evaluate your community.

Anything submitted now is still submitted using old rules.

Frankly, you can still do anything on read.cash (except illegal stuff), the only change is to what will get points.

Thank you for being so responsive.

I also want to be clean here. Should I remove all accepted articles that are not according to requirements from my communities to have a chance of being one of the featured communities?

You don't have to remove the, They will deduct points from you because they already paid for that article in your account in the previous days. That's what they said

Including the one that are not mine? The one I accepted in my communities?

No I meant your own articles. If you remove unrelated articles in your community, that's fine. Just don't erase your own article in your profile.

I see. Thank you for the explanation.

Doesn't mean that we will also be notified if our communities are rejected? But the notifications is a bit messy(no offense) and I can't hardly find comments that In want to reply.

I agree with this. I believe that it will be more fun after this.

No offence just curious. If you weren't given points for a published article and you delete the article, will you still have negative points?

No, the system looks for the amount of points previously given and deducts exactly that amount.

The problem is that you need to think about the readers. Most readers don't speak two-three-five languages, so for them a community that's in two languages is at least 50% useless.

Or could be a motivation for a reader to learn a new language... Or a motivation for an author to write an article in the languages accepted by a community, as long as s/he speaks/writes in any of those accepted... I think it would be useful for language learning communities...

Yeah, I think making a community a point-free zone is something we can do.

im going to make a prediction here, that #1 is not going to be enough and you will have to do #2 as well

1 is pretty easy to do, #2 requires a lot of thinking and quite a bit more complex (it will probably require some form of blind-escrow contract, because we won't hold other people's money), so not in the near future.

Thank you. I've set my community to be point-free, and hopefully that will help mitigate some of the submission spam.

Have you thought of creating a banning system in order to fight spammers? Maybe a moderator could ban a spammer from the community/-ies s/he moderates...

Done, see in the community settings.