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Who are your best friends on dotblu? Let everybody know on your Top Friends!

Now you can change the order of your friends and let everyone know who your best friends on dotblu are. Your top friends will be the first friends displayed on your profile.

To change your top friends, use the 'friends' pull down menu and go to 'top friends'. On top, you will see a list of all your friends, on the bottom, you will see your 100 top friends. Click on your friends' image on the top to add them to your top friends, and drag and drop them on the bottom to change the order of your top friends. You can add up to 100 top friends, and the top fifteen will be visible automatically on your profile.

As always, if you have any questions about the dotblu store or anything else, feel free to email us at feedback@dotblu.com or contact the House. Good luck!

Add a picture to your question's title!

We've added a new way to illustrate your questions, by adding a picture to the header of your question. We noticed that many users like to have an image to illustrate the question itself, in addition to the illustrations for the choices. Until now, many would add an extra choice for this, titled 'don't click here'. Now that won't be necessary, as you can add the image directly to the header.

To add an image to your question, after you enter your question in the creation form, there is an 'add image' link right next to your question. It works just like the images for the choices, where you have an option of either uploading an image or using Google image search to find one.

As always, if you have any questions about the dotblu store or anything else, feel free to email us at feedback@dotblu.com or contact the House. Good luck!

New Quizzes are in Effect

As of today we have changed the way that quizzes are settled. Here's how they work now:

• You create a quiz by filling out the forms as usual, but now you can set the ante and the close date of your quiz.
• After creating your quiz, choose the correct answer from the preview screen, and click "create" again.
• You will not be able to answer a quiz that you create. At the moment, there is no creator reward for creating a quiz.
• When you answer a quiz, you will be informed immediately if your answer is correct. You will have to wait until the quiz is settled before your BluBucks are rewarded and to know how many BluBucks you've earned.

We think this will be a big improvement for the quizzes, and will give players an incentive to create more challenging quizzes, and give users an opportunity to earn even more by playing quizzes. As always, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to write to us at feedback@dotblu.com or contact the House Good luck!

Coming Soon: Win more with quizzes.

Starting very soon, you'll be able to win more on quizzes than the current 100 BluBucks per question.  Right now you can only win 100 BluBucks for every quiz you answer, no matter how many people have played, or how many got it right or wrong.  Starting very shortly, quizzes will work very similarly to Majority Wins and Prediction questions, where the pot is divided among the winning players.

What that means is that when you answer a quiz correctly, you'll win more depending on how many other players get the question wrong.   That means that more challenging questions will have a much bigger payoff than they have now, but questions that are too easy will have very little payoff at all, if any.  That's because all players risk an ante when they play, which is added to the pot.  When the question is settled, the pot is split between the winning players.  If everyone wins the question, everyone just gets their ante back.

You'll still know right away if you answered the question right or wrong, but you'll have to wait until the quiz is settled to receive your winnings.

Important note: All quizzes created before the transition will still reward 100 BluBucks automatically as a correct answer.  For the remainder of the time these quizzes are still open (about a week), both types of quizzes will coexist on the site until the last of the old type close.

As always, if you have any questions, comments or suggestions feel free to contact us at feedback@dotblu.com or contact the House. Good luck!