For listeners

Understand anonymous voting, listener-account features, points, badges, display names, and what appears on your profile.

Do you need an account?

No — not to vote. You can open any host’s page, drag the slider, and answer polls without signing up.

A listener account unlocks:

Checking in to a host’s roll call, and appearing on the board.
Suggesting a segment and upvoting suggestions on a host’s live idea board.
Points, streaks and badges that build up with each host you follow.

Voting stays anonymous either way

Even signed in, your slider position and your poll answers are never attached to you. That is a deliberate line in the product, not a setting.

Signing up takes one tap and there is no password. Reach for a listener-only action on a live show — I'm here, or suggesting a segment — and a panel opens in place. Continue with Google, or enter your email and type the six-digit code we send you. HeatCheck works out a display name from your Google account or your email address, so there is usually nothing else to fill in, and whatever you were part-way through carries on once you are in.

Your profile

Your listener profile at /me opens with any live show from a host whose roll call you have attended before. It checks periodically, so one of those hosts going live appears without a page reload.

Your career: Total points, shows attended, first/second/third-place totals, and your longest streak with any one host.
Trophy case: The whole badge set — including the ones you have not earned, so you can see what to aim for.
A card per host: Your record with each one, how close your next badge is, and a way through to their page.
Show history: Your 50 most recent settled shows, newest first, with place points and participation points shown separately. The heading carries your true total when your history is longer than the visible list.

How to earn points

Check in first — everything else depends on it

Points are earned with a specific host, and checking in is the only thing that ties what you do in a show to your account. Vote all night without checking in and you score nothing.

Checking in: 5 points, every time.
First place: 30 points total.
Second place: 20 points total.
Third place: 15 points total.
Suggesting a segment: 3 points.
Upvotes on your suggestion Up to 10 per show: 1 point each — to you, the author.
Answering a poll: 1 point, once per poll.

Points are banked when the host ends the show, not as you go — so a night’s total appears once the show is over.

Removing your own suggestion refunds its points

If you withdraw your suggestion, its posting and upvote credit are removed from that show’s pending total. If the host adds it to the queue, puts it on air, or removes it, the credit remains.

Badges and streaks

Badges are earned separately with each host, while your trophy case shows every badge type you have earned anywhere. Locked badges remain visible so you can see their requirements.

Present: Check in to one show.
Regular: Check in to five shows with one host.
Super fan: Check in to twenty shows with one host.
Podium: Finish in the top three once.
First in: Take first place once.
Hat trick: Finish in the top three on three consecutive check-ins with one host.
On fire: Finish in the top three on five consecutive check-ins with one host.
Centurion: Bank one hundred points with one host.

A streak counts consecutive check-ins with the same host that finish in the top three. Skipping one of that host’s shows leaves the streak unchanged; checking in and finishing outside the top three resets the current streak. Your profile keeps the longest streak you reached.

Your display name

Your display name is what appears on a host’s roll-call board and on their stream. Display names contain no spaces. Change yours in Settings; the new name is used the next time you check in.

A live check-in keeps the name it started with

Roll call snapshots your display name when you check in. Changing it later does not rewrite the current board or a show that has already settled, but your account and future check-ins use the new name.

Pick something you would be happy seeing on a broadcast

Roll-call boards are frequently put on stream overlays. Hosts can remove or ban a name from their own shows.

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