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When a post accepts Star reactions, the panel that opens has your avatar in the corner. Tapping it lets you send as one of the channels you run instead of as yourself, and your channel's name appears on the post's supporter list — where anybody can tap it.
So the same gesture is a tip, a signature and an advertisement, and those three do not always want the same thing.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Switch identity before sending a Star reaction.
- check_circle Say where the Stars come from.
- check_circle Judge when a channel's name helps and when it intrudes.
- check_circle Give without appearing anywhere.
The avatar in the corner of the panel is the switch — easy to miss, and the whole feature.
switch_account Whose name goes on it
A Star reaction is money with a name attached, and the supporter list on a post is ordered by how much was given. Sending as a channel puts that channel at the position the amount buys, with its picture, and the entry is a link — a reader can tap it and land on a preview of your channel.
That is the honest description of what is on offer: paid placement on somebody else's post, framed as support. Which is not a criticism. Paying a creator you value and being visible for having done it is an old and reasonable arrangement, and here both halves are explicit rather than hidden.
The Stars come from your own balance rather than the channel's, which is worth knowing before you start. Reacting as a channel changes the name on the entry, not where the money is taken from.
Three names you can send under
Same Stars, same post, three quite different messages.
person The ordinary one
campaign The visible one
visibility_off The quiet one
Ask whose message this is. A person supporting someone, a project greeting another, or nobody's business at all.
balance If you are on the receiving end
A supporter list with channels on it looks like endorsement, and readers will take it that way whether or not you intended it. Somebody arriving at your post sees names placed by payment and assumes a relationship, which is a thing worth being deliberate about rather than discovering later.
That cuts both ways. A channel you would not have recommended can buy the top of your most-read post, and there is no approval step in between. If that matters for what you publish, the honest options are to think about whether Star reactions suit your channel at all, or to say plainly somewhere that the list is paid placement rather than a set of partners.
For most channels none of this is a problem and the money is welcome. It becomes one specifically when you write about things where an implied endorsement has value to somebody — which is exactly where the offers will come from.
settings Doing it
- Tap the Star reaction on a post Only where the author enabled it.
- Tap the avatar in the panel That is the identity switch.
- Pick yourself, a channel, or anonymous Three different messages.
- Remember it is your own balance Not the channel's.
- Use a channel's name only where it is welcome Collaborators, not strangers.
- Go anonymous when the amount would say too much It still counts.
This page spends Stars on somebody else's post. The curriculum step is the economy underneath: how a balance is bought and earned, what it can pay for, and where an author's side of it actually settles.
At a glance
- 1React as a channel
Switch identity before sending a Star reaction.
- 2Your own Stars
The Stars come from your personal balance.
- 3Name in the list
Top supporters are listed and their names link.
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