Spam has been hitting Skool more lately, and sometimes it hits the Yard too. If you spot it early, it helps me keep this place clean. If you see a spam post or comment: - Click the three dots on it - Tap “Report to admins” - Skip replying to it, replies often feed it If you get a DM that feels like a pitch or scam: - Screenshot it - DM it to an admin inside the Yard - I can remove the account and clean up the thread A few rules so real builders can still share things: - If you built something genuinely useful for Skool or community building, share it once with context and a clear takeaway - Links are fine. Asking strangers to DM you is not - Mass DMing members to sell something is not welcome - Cold pitches, copy paste replies, and “free job/money” stuff tends to get removed fast For obvious spam, I usually remove and ban on the first offense. If it looks like a real human who is just confused, I may message them once before removing. If you want to help, drop a comment below with: - Their profile link - The exact text they posted or DM’d you Keep it factual. No dogpiling. Thanks for protecting the Yard ⭐ Jack

I just finished a chat with Andrew Kirby about our situation and what they saw on their side. My biggest misunderstanding was thinking Skoolers and “Skool the platform” were the same thing. They’re not. Skoolers is a community like ours. It’s run with its own standards, and they moderate it the way they want their community to feel. The border is pretty simple in practice.Inside a community is inside the border.Anything that spills into other communities is outside the border. That’s why the Purge became a real problem. In my group, people were using my face as their profile picture for jokes. When that spilled into Skoolers, it starts normalizing fake accounts and “who cares” profile identity. That snowballs fast, and it makes the whole platform feel less legit. Andrew also clarified what they mean by low-quality engagement. It’s loosely defined, but the patterns are clear: - lots of posts with no real conversation - post and ghost - self-promotional posts - anything that looks like gaming the system to level up faster He told me the phrase “help me level up” gets flagged by the system. He also said most people cooperate and do fine. It’s usually a tiny handful of problem makers. His words were basically: out of huge numbers of users, they can count the real troublemakers on one hand. One more thing people should understand: Skoolers moderation is a community choice. They’re not “moderating the platform.” They’re protecting their room. Also, they have 5 moderators. They’re part-time. If we waste their time with annoying stuff, we are effectively burning the bandwidth of a small team. So here’s what I’m asking from the Yard going forward: - Use a real profile photo. Treat your account like it represents you. - If you post, stick around and reply. Try to create conversation, not noise. - Do not post anything framed around farming points, leveling up, or “help me level up.” - Respect moderators and admins. They are protecting the experience for everyone.

Paste into GPT: Act as a thorough critic with a background in professional writing and grammar, logic and philosophy and look over this example and provide me with the underlying assumptions I have made in writing this along with the relative weaknesses and how to strengthen it.

I'm meeting with a higher up in Skool tomorrow and would like to use this post as examples of what people like and don't like about the Purge: - Your personal pros and cons - What you think about how it affects the rest of the platform. - Whether or not the removal from Discovery was warranted or - Anything else on your minds related to the purge.