Reading & Upvoting Posts
How the reader experience works, including upvotes, the daily vote cap, and the Level 4 gate.
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The Reading Experience
Each post has a full-width adaptive layout with:
- A hero section with title, kicker, estimated reading time, and tags
- The cover image (when provided)
- The body rendered with rich formatting: bold, inline links, paragraph spacing, callouts, pull-quotes, inline images, and numbered steps for guides
- A sticky sidebar on desktop (or a collapsible Table of Contents on mobile) for quick navigation
- An Author Card at the end with a link to the author's public profile
Upvoting Posts
If a post is genuinely useful, upvote it to boost its visibility. Academy upvotes work like the rest of the platform:
- Upvoting requires Level 4
- You can cast 1 academy upvote per UTC day β across all posts combined, not per post
- The counter resets at midnight UTC
- You can unvote the same day to free up your daily slot, then vote on a different post
- A small timer on the upvote button tells you when your next slot opens
This keeps upvotes a scarce, meaningful signal rather than a spammable click.
Sharing Posts
Each post has a Share card in the sidebar with one-click links for X, Telegram, and copy-to-clipboard. Post URLs are shareable and public β anyone can read them, logged in or not.