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Attention checks
The marked test posts in your feed, why they exist, and how to answer them.
Every now and then, a post in your feed isn’t a real post but an attention check. It’s how Peerkola finds out whether people are actually reading.
How to recognise one
- It’s marked with a small icon. Hover or tap it for an explanation.
- It’s published by the peerkola account.
- Its text tells you what to do: forward it or drop it.
We mark checks openly on purpose. Testing people without telling them would be a trick.
How to answer
Read the text and do what it says. Afterwards the app tells you whether you passed.
What it does
- Answering correctly raises your trust score; answering wrongly lowers it.
- You earn 1 token, as with any review.
- Nothing else. A check doesn’t count as a review in your statistics, it isn’t sent on to anyone, and forwarding it doesn’t reach people.
Something missing or unclear?
Tell us with the feedback form in the app. Every question tells us what to explain better.