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One of the primary purposes at valME is to allow you to reward others directly for bringing you value. Or, said another way, we want to help you profit when you bring value to others. Of course, you can read what another user posts, gain value from it, and not give him or her anything in return. But, if the urge strikes you, we give you the opportunity to upvote that user’s content. By upvoting, you transfer one karma to the author. You can even tip that user additional karma. And, at valME, karma has tangible value. Granted, you're only receiving a penny when someone upvotes your content. But those pennies add up (and, potentially, bring you more than you were earning from click-through advertising on your blog). Think of all the posts you've seen on other social networking sites with their thousands of upvotes. If upvotes were pennies, those users would be rich. What happens instead? They get to feel good, while the social networking sites get rich from advertisers. Wouldn't it be better if the users, themselves, got that money? After all, it was their content that brought you value. Imagine you're a programmer. For us coding geeks, sites like Stack Overflow are a lifeline to getting work done. In fact, we're reasonably convinced that when Stack Overflow goes down, all programming around the world just stops. (Well, at least that's the excuse we use.) Yet, when we read an answer from someone who has fixed that (Javascript) problem we've spent hours debugging, we want to kiss that person's feet. It's times like those where a thank you and a (worthless) upvote just don't seem enough. That person saved us from hours of wasted effort and aggravation. That geek deserves more. Think of it this way: why do people give charities money? Quite obviously, because donors value what the they are doing. Donors want to support those activities and motivate others to do so. valME provides those same opportunities – to support the activities of those you value.

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