Support rounds and your standing in a circle

A support round is one circle agreeing to move at the same time: everybody drops a post inside the drop window, then everybody supports the posts that landed before the round closes. It is the answer to the usual problem, that posts trickle in and nobody is looking when they do.

How a round runs

1. The circle owner or a moderator starts a round and sets two windows.
2. Members get a notification: drop your post within the drop window, then support everyone before the round closes.
3. Posts attached to the circle during the drop window are the round’s posts.
4. Members support each other’s round posts. Your own post never counts against you.
5. When the support deadline passes, the round closes automatically and a report goes out.

Setting	Default	Range
Drop window	24 hours	1 to 48 hours
Support window	48 hours after the drop window	1 to 96 hours
Rounds open at once, per circle	1	1

What the round report says

Progress is tracked per member as “supported X of Y”, where Y is every round post that is not your own. When the round closes:

• the owner gets a summary of how many members completed the round and how many posts were in it
• members who supported every eligible post get their own notification for it

Only the owner or a moderator can start a round, see Create your own circle and run it.

Your standing in a circle

Separately from rounds, every circle keeps a support rate for each member: of the circle’s posts that were attached after you joined, that are not yours and that have already settled, how many did you support?

Standing	Support rate	What you see
New	Fewer than 3 settled posts	A nudge to support a few posts and build a standing
Good standing	80% or more	A green strip confirming it
At risk	50% to 80%	An amber warning to support more members
Low support	Under 50%	A red strip noting that low-support members can be removed by the owner

The strip sits at the top of the circle’s stream. Good-standing and new notices can be dismissed for good, the warnings come back on your next visit, which is deliberate.

Minimum support rate

A circle owner can set a minimum support rate between 1% and 100%. Members below it get a notification naming the circle and the threshold, asking them to support a few posts to stay in good standing. It is a warning, not an automatic removal, but an owner or moderator can remove members who ignore it.

The Support Matrix

Owners and members can open a circle’s stats to see the matrix for every active member: eligible posts, supported, skipped, still pending, and the resulting support rate over settled posts only. Pending posts never count against anyone, because they are still open for support.

Getting the most out of a round

1. Drop a fresh post inside the drop window, not an old one. The round is what puts eyes on it early.
2. Budget your daily cap. A round in a 20-member circle can ask for more supports than a Member-level cap of 15 allows in one day, so spread them across the two days of the support window.
3. Comment where you can. A comment pays 3 against a like’s 1, and it is what the post owner actually notices.
4. Check the stream banner afterwards to see your standing move.

Related

• Support other members, and the fairness ratio
• Create your own circle and run it
• Post approval, moderation and circle votes