WeReally

Platform Glossary

Your comprehensive guide to understanding WeReally's platform-specific terms, features, and concepts.

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Answer
Content
A response to a Question contribution that provides a solution or helpful information. Answers can be attested by the community and the question author can mark one as the accepted answer. High-quality answers earn karma and increase your Trust Score.

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Article
Content
See Guide. A longer-form contribution that provides in-depth knowledge, tutorials, or comprehensive explanations on a topic. Articles include full markdown support, source attribution, and can be licensed for AI training.

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Attestation
Reputation
A public endorsement or vouching for the quality and accuracy of a contribution. Community members can attest to content they find valuable, which increases its visibility and the author's Trust Score. Attestations are a key mechanism for surfacing high-quality knowledge.

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Comment
Content
A response or discussion point added to a contribution. Comments can be nested to create threaded conversations and are subject to the same attestation and dispute mechanisms as top-level contributions.

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Community
Community
A focused group organized around a specific topic, field, or interest. Each community has its own rules, moderators, treasury, and can set custom verification requirements. Communities own and govern their collective knowledge.

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Community Gates
Community
Access requirements set by communities for joining or participating. Gates can include verification level thresholds, invitation requirements, or application processes. This allows communities to maintain quality and cultural fit.

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Community Treasury
Monetization
A shared pool of funds accumulated from tips, donations, and revenue sharing. The treasury is controlled by community governance and can be used for rewards, grants, events, or infrastructure. 20% of AI licensing revenue flows to the community treasury.

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Contribution
Content
Any piece of knowledge shared on the platform including posts, articles, guides, facts, questions, answers, and reviews. All contributions are tracked with full source attribution, enabling proper credit and compensation when content is licensed.

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Contribution Type
Content
The category of content being shared: Post (general discussion), Guide (how-to content), Fact (verified information), Question (seeking knowledge), Answer (providing solutions), or Review (evaluating products/services). Types help with discovery and filtering.

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Dispute
Governance
A flag raised by community members when they believe content is inaccurate, misleading, or violates guidelines. Disputes trigger community review and can lead to content corrections or removal. The dispute system ensures adversarial testing of all knowledge.

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Fact
Content
A contribution type for verified, objective information with strong source attribution. Facts require citations and are held to higher standards of accuracy. They're ideal for data points, statistics, research findings, and documented information.

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Feed
Content
The main content stream showing contributions from communities you follow or across the entire platform. Can be sorted by Hot (trending), New (recent), Top (most attested), or Rising (gaining momentum). Authenticated users receive a personalized For You feed.

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Founding Member
Reputation
Early supporters who joined during the platform's initial launch period. Founding members receive a permanent badge, priority access to new features, and special governance privileges. This status recognizes those who took a risk on the platform early.

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Governance
Governance
The process by which communities make collective decisions about rules, moderation policies, treasury allocation, and platform features. Each community can define its own governance structure, from simple majority voting to complex multi-tier systems.

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Guide
Content
A structured, how-to style contribution that teaches others how to accomplish something. Guides are longer than posts and include step-by-step instructions, best practices, and comprehensive explanations. Creating guides earns significant karma points.

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Karma
Reputation
A continuous point system that rewards active participation and quality contributions. Earn karma by creating content, receiving attestations, helping others, and building communities. Karma provides progression feedback and unlocks achievements, complementing your Trust Score which focuses on credibility.

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License
Monetization
Permission granted to use community knowledge for specific purposes, especially AI training. Contributors explicitly opt in to licensing and receive 70% of revenue when their content is licensed. All licenses include full source attribution requirements.

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Moderation
Governance
Community-led content review and enforcement of guidelines. Moderators are trusted members who can remove rule-violating content, resolve disputes, and set community policies. Moderation actions are transparent and can be appealed through governance.

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Opt-In
Monetization
The explicit consent model where contributors choose whether to allow their content for AI training. Unlike platforms that default to sharing user data, WeReally requires active opt-in and allows withdrawal at any time with clear compensation tracking.

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Personalization
Content
Customized content recommendations based on your community memberships, attestations, and reading history. The For You feed uses transparent ranking signals (no black-box algorithms) to surface content likely to be valuable to you.

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Post
Content
The most common contribution type for general discussion, opinions, and sharing thoughts. Posts are flexible and can include text, images, and links. They're perfect for starting conversations and sharing perspectives with the community.

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Provenance
Content
Complete tracking of content origin, edit history, citations, and community context. Provenance ensures every contribution can be traced back to its original author and sources, making the knowledge base auditable and trustworthy.

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Question
Content
A contribution type specifically for seeking knowledge or solutions from the community. Questions can receive multiple Answers, and the author can mark one as accepted. Well-formed questions that help others earn karma points.

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Reputation
Reputation
Your standing within the community, primarily reflected in your Trust Score. Reputation is earned through quality contributions, positive attestations, and consistent engagement. Higher reputation unlocks features like moderation abilities and increased vote weight.

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Revenue Sharing
Monetization
Fair distribution of income when communities license knowledge to AI companies. 70% goes to the original creator, 20% to the community treasury, and 10% to platform operations. All revenue is tracked transparently on your dashboard.

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Review
Content
A contribution type for evaluating products, services, books, tools, or other items. Reviews help the community make informed decisions and can include ratings, pros/cons, and detailed experiences. Thorough reviews earn karma and attestations.

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Source Attribution
Content
Automatic tracking of who contributed what content and what their sources were. Every contribution records the author, timestamp, edit history, and citations. This ensures proper credit and enables accurate revenue distribution.

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Treasury
Monetization
See Community Treasury. A shared pool of funds controlled by community governance for collective benefit.

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Trust Score
Reputation
A unified reputation metric from 0-100 that reflects your credibility and contribution quality. Calculated from account age, verification level, attestations received, positive community feedback, and consistent engagement. Higher scores unlock features and increase influence.

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Verification Level
Verification
Your World ID verification tier determining platform capabilities. Levels include Device (basic identity), Orb (in-person verification), Document (government ID), and Phone (SMS verification). Higher levels unlock posting, voting, and community creation.

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Vote Weight
Governance
The hidden influence your vote carries in community decisions and content ranking. Weight increases with Trust Score and verification level, giving established members more influence while preventing manipulation by new or unverified accounts.

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World ID
Verification
A privacy-preserving identity verification system by Worldcoin that proves you're a unique human without revealing personal information. World ID enables sybil resistance while maintaining anonymity and is required for most platform actions.

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