Posting in a Reading Circle
For readers and authorsUpdated 2 min read
The Discussion tab is the conversation; a post has a type (general, chapter chat, checkpoint, theory, character, quote, prompt, announcement, endgame) and follows the Circle's spoiler policy, which can hide posts past your recorded progress. Report and remove work as everywhere.
The short answer
The Discussion tab
Discussion is the Circle's conversation, one stream, newest first. Posts have replies (one level), reactions and mentions; every post carries its spoiler level as a small tag on the right (General, Chapter 14, Up to 40%, Endgame), and a post's ⋯ menu has Report and, for the people who run the Circle, Remove. The stream refreshes itself every twenty seconds while it is open, so you see what others posted without reloading.
Post types
When you post, choose the post type: General, Chapter chat (about a part of the book), Checkpoint (tied to a point in the plan), Theory, Character, Quote, Prompt, Announcement or Endgame (about the ending), and say how far into the book it spoils up to, as a percent. The composer tells you what that does: Nothing folded: everyone sees it, or Anyone behind that point sees it folded until they choose to reveal it.
Spoilers
Every Circle has a spoiler policy, set by the owner:
- Relaxed: no gate; members mind their own spoilers.
- Progress (the default): a post that spoils past a member's recorded progress is folded for them, with the reason on it (You are at 30%; this post goes to 40%. Tap to reveal anyway.), and the Discussion says Showing the conversation from the point you have reached, with Show everything if you want it all.
- Strict: anything not explicitly marked safe is hidden.
Keep your progress up to date on the book (Shelves and progress) and the gate opens as you read.
House rules
The owner's house rules sit with the Circle's description. The Community guidelines apply in every Circle on top of them; report and block work in a Circle as they do everywhere (Reporting and blocking).
Authors
An author runs their Official Circle as its owner; see Official Circles.
Related
- Joining a Reading Circle: A Reading Circle is a group reading together. Circles are public (listed), unlisted (reachable by link) or private (members only); joining is instant, by request (Request sent while the owner answers) or by invitation link, sometimes with a question or two to answer first.
- The reading plan, checkpoints and meetings: A Circle's Plan tab holds the book, the checkpoints (by chapter, percent or date) and the group's progress; a checkpoint can carry a meeting time, shown in your own timezone, and being in the Discussion during the meeting window counts as attendance. Owners can make recurring schedules and author drop-ins.
- Polls and challenges in a Reading Circle: The Polls tab runs single-choice, multiple-choice, book-nomination and date-and-time polls, with the owner choosing when results show and who sees who voted; the Challenges tab runs group goals (books finished, books in a genre or series, pages read, one book together) whose progress counts from your own reading.
- Reporting and blocking: Every profile, post, comment, book, review and photo has Report in its menu; a human moderator reviews it. Blocking someone hides you from each other entirely, they are not told, and you can undo it under Settings › Privacy.
- Content warnings and content levels: Authors describe a book's content warnings in their own words and set a content level; both show on the book page, and an Explicit book opens only for signed-in readers who have said they are 18 or older. A topic you asked to avoid keeps matching books out of the books Discover recommends for your taste, and is marked on the book's page wherever else you meet it; nothing is hidden from search.
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