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Velus Guide
Everything about how Velus works — how anonymity protects you, how verification earns trust, and how reputation is built. The Guide explains the platform; the community provides the wisdom.
Getting Started
What Velus is, why it exists and how it differs from everything else.
What is Velus?
A trusted community where verified professionals have honest, anonymous conversations.
1 min readWhy was Velus created?
The most useful professional conversations were happening privately — and disappearing.
1 min readHow Velus is different from LinkedIn and Reddit
Verified like LinkedIn, candid like Reddit — without the performance or the anonymity gap.
1 min readYour Account
Your profile, your settings and what stays private.
Creating your profile
Onboarding captures the professional context the community actually needs.
1 min readEditing your profile
Update your role, experience and Circles whenever your career moves.
1 min readAccount settings
Notifications, discoverability and appearance live in one place.
1 min readPrivacy
What Velus stores, what it shows and what it never publishes.
1 min readProfessional Safety
The commitment underneath the whole product.
Why conversations are anonymous
Honesty has a cost when your name is attached. Velus removes the cost.
1 min readHow anonymity works
Your contributions carry professional context, never personal identity.
1 min readHow your identity is protected
Separation between who you are and what you write is enforced by design.
1 min readWhat information is visible
A precise list of what the community can and cannot see.
1 min readReporting abuse
How to flag content that breaks the community's standard of respect.
1 min readBlocking members
Stop seeing a member's contributions without exposing anyone.
1 min readVerification
Why anonymity only works when everyone is real.
Why verification matters
Anonymity without verification is just noise.
1 min readHow to verify your account
A one-time check during onboarding, usually reviewed within a day.
1 min readVerification methods
Several routes, so verification never depends on one employer.
1 min readVerified Professional badge
The quiet mark that makes anonymous advice trustworthy.
1 min readReputation
How the community recognises genuine usefulness.
What Reputation is
Your Velus Score measures how much you have helped, not how visible you are.
1 min readHow Reputation is earned
Helpful marks, Best Answers, resources and consistency.
1 min readHelpful replies
The primary signal on Velus, and what makes one count.
1 min readBest Answers
The person who asked decides what actually solved their problem.
1 min readCommunity Recognition
Credentials that appear when your contributions consistently help a Circle.
1 min readReputation levels
Tiers that describe contribution, not seniority.
1 min readLosing Reputation
The few ways a score goes down.
1 min readCommunities
Circles are where Velus knowledge actually lives.
Joining communities
Circles group discussions by industry, function and market.
1 min readFollowing discussions
Keep a thread you care about without replying to it.
1 min readCreating discussions
Choose a Circle, choose a type, then write for the reader.
1 min readCommunity guidelines
Short rules, strictly applied.
1 min readDiscussions
How to ask well, answer well and maintain a thread.
Asking better questions
Context in, quality out.
1 min readWriting quality replies
The reply someone acts on is specific, honest and bounded.
1 min readEditing discussions
Improve a thread without rewriting its history.
1 min readDeleting discussions
You can always remove your own contribution.
1 min readMarking Best Answer
Close the loop for the people who read your question later.
1 min readModeration
How standards are kept without surveillance.
Velus Pro
The optional membership — and the lines it will never cross.
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