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Exantria.com FAQ

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FAQ Meta: This section are questions relating to this FAQ document.
Story Kicks: This section contains questions relating the "Kicking" of stories.
Story Submission: This section relates to the story submission processes including submission rules concerning SPAM and "BlogSpam".
Story Categories: This section provides guidance on common questions related to story categories.
Story Tags: This section provides answers to questions about story tags and the tagging process.
User Banning: This section answers questions about the banning of users.
User Profile: This section addresses questions relating to user accounts, profiles, and personalization.
User Comments: This section deals with submitting and moderating user comments related to a story.
User Friends: This section contains questions related to friends.
RSS, Web Feeds: This section provides answers to questions concerning RSS, Web Feeds, and syndication.
Earn Money: This section provides answers to the Ad Revenue sharing system.
Helping: This section provides information to how to help the project.

FAQ Meta

What is a FAQ?

An FAQ is a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). This page should address a majority of the most frequently asked questions concerning this web site.

I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. What should I do?

You can post the question on the Kick Shoutbox or email your question to admin@zikbay.com .

Who is responsible for the FAQ?

This document is maintained by the Exantria.com development team.

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Story Kicks

What is a Kick?

Kicks are votes of approval from our members. If a story has 16 kicks, that means 16 users liked it. The more kicks a story receives, the more likely that it will appear on the homepage. If you don't like a story, don’t give it a kick.

How do I Kick a story?

To kick a story, simply click the "Kick It" hyperlink located next to the story summary. When you have kicked a story, the hyperlinked text turns from "Kick It" to "Kicked."

How do I Unkick a story?

To unkick a story, simply click the "Kicked" hyperlink located next to the story summary. When you have unkicked a story, the hyperlinked text turns from "Kicked" to "Kick It."

How do I find stories to kick?

To find stories that have not been promoted, click the 'Upcoming Stories' link in the navigation section. You can also click the 'find' link beside each category in the list of categories.

How many Kicks does it take to get to the front page?

The promotion algorithm determines when a story is promoted to the front page. Exantria.com requires a story to have 2 kicks and 0 comments to be promoted from the upcoming stories to the front page.

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Story Submission

How do I submit stories to Exantria.com?

You simply need to register for a new account. With an account you can submit stories by clicking the 'Submit a story' link on the right menu of the homepage.

How do I add a "Kick It" link and image to my own page?

When you submit a story, you are provided with the HTML needed to add a "Kick It" image and link to your web page, that you can customize by choosing the colors you prefer. You can use the below HTML code as a template, just remember to replace "MyURL" with the exact URL as the submitted story.

How do I automatically add a "Kick It" link to each of my FeedBurner feed entries?

FeedBurner has a feature called FeedFlare which lets you easily add links to the bottom of each entry in your feed. To add a "Kick it" link to each of your feed entries you need to configure your feed accordingly following these steps:

Open your feed in FeedBurner and go to the Optimize section.
On the side menu there's an option called FeedFlare, click on it.
You will be shown a list of available flares, among which you can find Email, Del.icio.us, Digg.
Scroll down the page, and in the "Personal FeedFlare" input field type the following: http://Exantria.com/static/tools/feedflare/kickitflare.xml
Click on the "Add new Flare" button, and enable the new flare by cheking the corresponding checkbox.
Remember to activate this features using the "Activate" button at the bottom of the page.

How do I customize the "Kick It" image to match my web site's color scheme?

You can use the following URL parameters to customize the colors of the the "Kick It" image. All parameter values must be specified using valid hexidecimal web color without the "#" symbol. Remember, do not include the "#" symbol in the hexidecimal values. These URL parameters are used in the "img" tag for the KickItImageGenerator service.

border: The "border" URL parameter defines the color used for the border of the image.
bgcolor: The "bgcolor" URL parameter defines the background color of the "kick it" text area.
fgcolor: The "fgcolor" URL parameter defines the foreground/text color of the "kick it" text.
cbgcolor: The "cbgcolor" URL parameter defines the background of the kick counter area.
fbgcolor: The "fbgcolor" URL parameter defines the foreground/text color of the kick counter text.

An example is provided below.

Why didn’t you post my story?

A story must recieve a certain number of kicks and/or comments to be promoted to the front page.

Why was my story marked as SPAM?

Any story that is not related to the specific topic of this site can be deleted by site moderators and administrators. If you believe your story was incorrectly marked as SPAM please contact the team at admin@zikbay.com

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Story Categories

What is a category for?

A category is a way of grouping your story submission. If your story applies to more than one category, then you may add additional categories by "tagging" the story.

What if a category that I need doesn’t exist?

Are you sure that the story fits within the rules for story submission? If so, then you may choose the closest category and then tag the story with the correct category. You may also want to contact the site administration and request the category.

What if my story was placed in the wrong category?

You may tag the story to place it into the correct category. If story has an incorrect tag, then you can delete your own tags, but you cannot delete tags placed by others.

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Story Tags

What is a tag for?

A tag is similiar to categories. However, a story may be tagged with multiple tags.

How do I add a tag?

You click the "tag it" link located next to the story summary. Then you may enter text values to tag the story.

How do I remove a tag?

To remove a tag, click the "tag it" link located next to the story summary. Your story tags will then appear and you can click the "X" link to delete the tag.

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User Banning

Why was I banned?

There are several reasons for banning. If you do not understand why you were banned, please contact the site administration. Banning my result from submitting SPAM and stories that do not fit within the site's rules.

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User Profile

I forgot my password!

Click the link labeled 'Forgot your password' to retrieve your password.

I don’t want any cookies!

Cookies are used for site administration and login purposes.

How do I change my password?

** Currently, you cannot change your password.

How do I change my email address?

** Currently, you cannot change your email address.

How do I see which stories I have kicked?

To see stories that you have kicked, visit your profile page by clicking on your account name hyperlink located in the navigation section of the header. Then you can click on "Kicked" profile hyperlink to view stories that you have kicked.

How do I see which stories I have submitted?

To see stories that you have submitted, visit your profile page by clicking on your account name hyperlink located in the navigation section of the header. Then you can click on "Submitted" profile hyperlink to view stories that you have submitted.

How do I see which stories I have commented on?

To see stories that you have commented on, visit your profile page by clicking on your account name hyperlink located in the navigation section of the header. Then you can click on "Comments" profile hyperlink to view stories that you have commented on.

How do I see my friends?

Your list of friends are dislayed on your profile page. To visit your profile page click on your account name hyperlink located in the navigation section of the header.

How do I add my web site, blog, or blog feed to my profile?

To add your website, blog, or blog feed (RSS), visit your profile page by clicking on your account name hyperlink located in the navigation section of the header. Then you can click on "Edit Profile" hyperlink to add the values to your profile.

How do I set my avatar/image?

To add your avatar, you must have an account with Gravatar. If you have a Gravatar account, then you must enter it into your profile. To update your profile click on your account name hyperlink located in the navigation section of the header. Then you can click on "Edit Profile" hyperlink to add the Gravatar account to your profile.

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User Comments

How do I add a comment?

To add a comment, click the "comments" link in the story summary. Once you are viewing the individual submitted story summary page, then you can use the form on that page to submit your comments.

How do I delete my comment?

Currently, you cannot delete your comments.

Can I edit my comments?

Currently, you cannot edit your comments.

Can I delete someone’s comment about my story?

You cannot delete someone else's comment about your story. If a comment is inappropriate please contact the site staff.

Why was my comment deleted?

Only the site staff can delete comments. If you feel that your comment was incorrectly delete, please contact the site staff.

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User Friends

What is a friend?

A friend is someone that you are acquainted with.

How do I add a friend?

To add a friend, click the person's name to view their profile. On their profile, click "Add Friend" hyperlink.

How do I remove a friend?

To remove a friend, click the person's name to view their profile. On their profile, click "Remove As Friend" hyperlink.

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Web Feeds

What is a Web Feed?

A Web Feed (or RSS) is an XML document that contains specific data elements.

What is RSS?

RSS is Really Simple Syndication. RSS is the same as Web Feed.

How do I subscribe to a Exantria.com Web Feed?

Most Exantria.com pages contain a RSS icon that looks like: . To subscribe to the web feed, just click this image and your default Web Feed/RSS Reader will activate.

How do I subscribe to a Exantria.com category only Web Feed?

Most Exantria.com pages contain a RSS icon that looks like: . To subscribe to the web feed, just click this image and your default Web Feed/RSS Reader will activate.

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Earn Money

How can I earn money?

Exantria.com uses a revenue sharing system. You will receive 50% of the advertisement revenue on this site for all stories that you submit. How it works is simple. Your AdSense account ID is used 50% of the time for all views of your submitted stories. As people click on your ads, your Google AdSense account will be credited. That’s it. Google will send you the check.

How do I get a Google AdSense id?

To get a Google AdSense id, visit 'Google AdSense' to sign up.

How do I enter my Google AdSense id?

First, you must have a valid account. Second, visit the Earn Money page to enter your Google AdSense id.

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Helping Exantria.com

How can I help Exantria.com?

Tell your friends - The most immediate and effective way that you can help us is to tell your friends about us. If you have a blog, please write a short post with a link to Exantria.com. The more users we have, the more useful the content becomes for everyone.

Kick some stories - As the site has no editors in the traditional sense, we rely on our users to kick the good content onto our homepage. Recently submitted stories that have not yet received enough kicks to make the homepage are awaiting your kicks right now.

Add a story - Without our users submitting stories, we would have no content. If you find any interesting stories relevant to Exantria.com, please submit them so that we can all know about them.

Add our headlines to your website - We provide various feeds that you can add to your website. These are updated in real time and you can add them to your site very simply.

Let us know your comments and suggestions - It is early days for Exantria.com and we have many improvements and new features coming soon. Please let us know what you think of the site and how we may improve it to better serve you.

How do I submit a bug?

You can submit a bug at Add a Issue.

How do I submit comments?

We would be delighted to hear your suggestions or comments, we can be reached at admin@zikbay.com .

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