🛡️ Try the new Patriot Warrior theme 🛡️ Warrior Mode

🎖️ Earn Merit Posting and reacting increaes your merit level! 📜 Join the Rise

🏛️ Perfect Unions Earn +5 bonus merits by connecting two friends! 📝 Start Building

🎯 Patriot Challenges — Rise faster through honor! 🚀 Patriot Challenge

🛡️ Win a Custom Leather Bracelet — Enlist today and climb higher! 🦅 Enlist Now

🦅 Free Speech in the Rise Stream — every action earns merit! 📢 Defend Freedom

🦅 Proud Patriot Read about the Patriot Warrior Merit System! 📢 How does it work?

🦅 Buy Me Coffee Show your support for the website! 📢 Donate

🦅 Fallen Soldiers Honor a fallen soldier or veteran! 📢 Fallen Heroes

🚧 Coming Soon

The Patriot Warrior Merit System

⬅️ Back to Freedom Sweet

🌺 Merit Ranks

🐣 Hatchling (0–19)
🧅 Talon (20–49)
🩶 Sky Scout (50–99)
🛡️ Sentinel (100–249)
🐺 Defender (250–499)
🧅🖼️ Eagle (500–999)
🇺🇸🗽 Patriot Warrior (1000–4999)
⭐️🔥🧅 Legend of Liberty (5000+)

🔒 Register or Login to view all merit ranks

🎖️ Visual Tokens

🩶 = Posts & Replies
🛡️ = Reactions
❤️🇽 = Friendships
🔥 = Login streaks
⭐️ = Profile completion

🔒 Full token guide available to members

🧰 Earning Merit

📝 +1 per Post
💬 +1 per Reply
🛡️ +1 per Reaction
🤝 +1 per Accepted Friend
🔀 +1 per Daily Login

🔒 Sign in to reveal full earning system

🎴 Freedom Flip Game

💎 Gem = +2 merit
🗽 Flag = Unity Merit
🩶 Feather = Speech Merit
❌ Empty = Quote only
✨ Triggered while browsing or once daily

🔒 Full Flip Game rules hidden for now

🔄 Influence System

🗳️ All users created equal
🎯 Merit adds gentle weight
🧅 Higher ranks = stronger influence multiplier
⚖️ Balance through reactions + replies

🔒 See the influence multiplier after login

🌟 Feed Behavior (Later)

📈 Posts “learn to fly”
❤️💙⚪ reactions = lift value
📝 Replies = wing flaps
🕒 Time = gravity decay
🔥 “Soaring Now” section = hot content

🔒 Feed mechanics revealed upon joining

👀 Surprise UX Ideas

🎲 Card popup = Freedom Flip
🎖️ Unlock visual badges on milestone
🪀 “Heartfire Society” via secret code
🎇 Animated rank upgrades
🪄 Profile merit trail under avatar

🔒 These secrets await brave explorers

💡 System Philosophy

🦡 No numeric scoreboard
🪙 Merit = background fuel
🖼️ Progress = visible story marks
⚙️ Simple DB logic, rich visuals

🔒 The full system design is members-only

📡 Rise Stream Overview

🦅 Featured Patriots – Posts with high RiseScore (50+) sit at the top of the stream
🔥 Rising Voices – Posts gaining traction (RiseScore 10+, recent activity)
🐣 Hatchlings – New posts (0 score, < 24 hrs old) appear in a dedicated “Voices Stream” at the top
🛡️ Active Legacy – Older posts with some merit, still visible in the main feed
👻 Silent Watchers – Forgotten or unrated posts drift toward the bottom

🔒 The Rise Stream evolves as more voices join the platform

🔊 What Is the Voices Stream?

The Voices Stream is a special horizontal strip at the top of Freedom Sweet’s feed — showcasing our newest contributors. Posts start as Hatchlings, fresh from the nest, and depend on your reactions and replies to rise through the ranks. Your support fuels their journey from unknown to unstoppable.

“Every legend began as a voice unheard.”

🕯️ The FreeMason Chamber of Ghosts

Deep beneath the Rise Stream lies a cold and dusty layer... A realm where posts go to be forgotten, ignored, and occasionally rediscovered by brave scrollers.

🔐 Zero reactions
⏳ Over 24 hours old
📜 No one remembers posting them
🕸️ They're still there… watching… waiting…