Poal: Say what you want.
Thanks for registering! Here you'll find a brief introduction on how to use this site
Your message indicator, a link to your profile settings, and some basic functions are in the sidebar.
- The envelope takes you to your message center where you can see replies and PMs
- The envelope will have a badge with a number in it if you have a new message
Your user profile has options that can be set as follow:
- Open external links in a new window
- Disable custom sub styles: Disables custom CSS styles on subs
- Show NSFW content (disabled by default): Shows posts that may contain nudity or extreme content
- Endless Scrolling (enabled by default) in all new
- Experimental features: auto-refresh when a new post is submitted
- Global stylesheet: enter the name of a sub to make its custom css sitewide
This site is composed of subs. Each sub community has their own set of themes, rules, moderators, etc. which can include:
- Extra CSS to change the colors and look of the sub
- Sidebar information with links to other sites that may not be affiliated with this site
- Choose the default sort of a sub when a user goes to it (New/Hot/Top)
- A video player mode that can play all the youtube posts that have been posted
- You must be level 2 and up to be able to create subs (max 30)
Customize your own front page:
- Customize the content you'd like to see on your personal front page called follow (located in the top menubar) by following users from their profile: sidebar > follow (bottom on mobile)
Colored usernames:
- The color of everyone's username corresponds to their account level
- The idea here is to offer something of a reward to the people who contribute a lot to poal
- Some of the wonderful benefits of these fantastic colors are they make shills easier to spot, it rewards long time community members and gives a sense of progression
- Levels are ordered as below:
- Level 0 -> light blue
- Level 2 (40 points) -> green
- Level 6 (360 points)-> yellow
- Level 20 (4,000 points)-> orange
- Level 30 (9,000 points)-> red
- Level 50 (25,000 points)-> blue Poal logo
- Level 100 (100,000 points)-> red pill
- Level 0 to 6 are limited to 60 Link and 60 Text Posts per day
- Comments are unlimited
- PM are disabled for new accounts (until they level up) to prevent PM spam abuse
- Level 6+ can access the voting [details] option (available under post's title or comments) to see who downvoted a post or comment
- On Poal.co, the downvote is not considered as a "I disagree". It's usually for spam and off-topic posts or comments