How does tipping work? It's quite simple actually.

How do I get tipping credits so I can show my appreciation?

When you click on the tip user link next to a blog post or status post that you like, if you do not have any credits, it will prompt you to purchase more. You can also check your credit balance and purchase more from your account settings page.

Credits can only be purchased through paypal, though you do not necessarily need a paypal account to check out, you will need either a major credit/debit card or a linked bank account to purchase credits.

What happens when I tip somebody, what do they get?

Our goal is to get as much money to content producers as possible. Because of transaction fees and cost of running the site, the tip that author will receive will be the value of the credit less (30% + transaction fees). If you purchase more credits at a time, the transaction fees are much smaller per credit. The current minimum will be 5 credits at a time.

Why do you guys take a chunk?

We hope that the tipping system will encourage writers to share quality content with the community and help the community to show gratitude. Both of these services are ancillary to the main forums which we intend to use as a backup for the reddit.com's theredpill subreddit (in the case of an emergency).

If, in the future, we are required to leave reddit, the traffic generated on our servers will rise, hopefully to the level the original subreddit was reaching. This may increase our costs considerably.

Because of this, we need to collect funds to ensure the costs and expenses of running this site are covered and that we have emergency funds available for an influx of visitors in such a case.

How do I get paid as an Author?

While the tipping purchase system supports paypal, the payout system will be using ONLY bitcoin. The reasons for this are numerous, but mostly for the protection of anonymity. After much deliberation, we have decided to use only bitcoin to avoid any potential issues with maintaining or even having personal records. Our contributors will remain entirely anonymous.

In order to receive your credit payouts, you must go to your account settings page and add a payout bitcoin address to your profile. Payouts will happen between the 1st and 5th of each month for the collected tips for the month before.

We urge you to register your bitcoin address before the clock strikes midnight on the first, or you may miss the payout batch for that month.

The address only needs to be set once and will be used for the life of the account. You can always update it, however, if you want to register a new address.

If you would prefer, however, not to receive funds, but rather donate them to the server fund, you can simply leave your bitcoin address blank. We do not store tips for your account after a payout. If no bitcoin address is registered by then, tips will automatically be transferred into the server fund.

Since we're likely to have a lot of questions regarding advertising and how it works here, I'm putting all the answers in one place for future reference.

Why advertisements? Isn't that the root of all evil?

Although I think we can all agree websites without ads look way better and function faster, the fact remains that for this site to operate as a backup for reddit's TRP and as an archival system in the interim, we need the resources to host this project. This means that up until now everything has been paid for either out-of-pocket by myself or by the very generous donations that have been made over the last year from users.

While we want to minimize the impact and size of the advertisements, we will need to generate some cash-flow to ensure a long future for TRP.RED.

Who can advertise?

The advertisement system is entirely self-serve, and the only moderator involvement is approving the advertisements to ensure they meet our content policy guidelines. Aside from that, there won't be any content selection or filtering.

Is there going to be sponsored content?

The only paid advertisements will be in the designated advertisement spots that will be filled by the self-serve advertisement system. There will be no paid promoted content, nor will there be a way to pay for preferential treatment for any users.

How can we be sure TRP.RED doesn't sell out?

The most important things to know about our advertisement framework:

• The content will never be changed, influenced, or featured because of any paid advertisement or sponsorship.
• The content will never be removed or edited to appease a sponsor. If a sponsor finds our content to be offensive, they can fuck right off.

I have worked hard to ensure integrity and propriety in this community, for many years without any compensation. I'm certainly not about to throw away years of unpaid hard work just to make a quick dollar today.

My goal is to make sure the advertisements cover the bills, and it's a dream of mine that it would actually happen that way. In practice, I predict that the advertisements will merely help with expenses, but that a large portion of running costs will remain out-of-pocket and donation based.

What's the Content Policy for advertisements?

• No nudity
• No profanity
• No speech that would violate our normal posting rules (including calls of misogyny or attempts to shame our community).
• Any products, services, or websites can be advertised, even if services are ones that contradict TRP (such as feminist sites).
• No illegal products or services that would infringe on USA law
• Single frame image JPEG banners only, no animations.
• Advertisements cannot link to autoplaying videos or audio
• Advertisements cannot link to websites with scripts that auto-download files, or auto-run any scripts that may be harmful to users' computers/phones/internet devices.

This Content Policy is subject to change.