So Glad... I Banned a Person for the First Time

LIVE streaming has been wonderful.

I optimized the time-to-first-video-connection metric to the absolute maximum.

But I also opened myself and the community to attack.

Just when I was wrapping up my day and was going to bed, with my eyelids heavy and legs sore, one person had prepared to use LIVE as a way to directly sell to me.

It was clear from the very start that he wasn't here for the community.

Despite fatigue, I did my smoking nunchucks show for him, and gave him a warm welcome.

He made his first move.

He questioned immediately, asking me the purpose and meaning behind what I do.

He started to frame my identity as somebody who needed to monetize my members right now.

I am fine with monetization and I'm absolutely a believer of beautiful money.

But he never talked anything about Path of the Dragon.

That pissed me off.

I would not criticize him on LIVE call, because any negative emotion I showed could have been video-taped by him and used out-of-conext.

I thought I could kill him with kindness, symbolically of course

When he said that I was gathering a bunch of people and trying to be a master for them, I replied that I learned from everybody, including him.

After failing at framing me in a sales call interaction, he talked about his childhood dream for Shaolin monks who can do handstands with their fingers.

He was trying to search for common-ground connections.

I redirected the conversation back to what he had done and planned to accomplish that goal.

He then moved on to talking about chess, migrating to Mars, and about owning a planet.

He tried to probe information by suggesting that I looked like I was very well off.

At the same time he talked about how hard it was to make money as immigrants despite US being a gold mine.

Finally he asked me to join his community.

I asked him how he got his members. He told me he paid for members. He paused for my reaction. He then said it was ads.

But I suspect that he really meant bots and was trying to see if I was interested. And when I showed disinterest, he then tried to play it cool and lied about real human beings in the group.

I've got invited by him to his community when I first joined Path of the Dragon.

But the community name says Making Money Quick with XXXXX where the censored part is his name.

I told him I was at the end of my LIVE and super exhausted.

Then he left.

To be honest, I felt like I had to do something but I didn't know what to do.

It was fine for me to just play TaiChi and have him leave the conversation.

But being a community owner for the first time, I felt a need to protect our culture.

But I still hesitated to remove him from the group on the spot. I thought maybe I should talk with other members the next day. I was hoping I could talk to someone like

@Bill Hazelton

@Sam Rathling

Then, when I was reading

@Jack Shiller

's post again, I saw that he was typing up a comment.

That was the straw that broke the camel's back.

I would not want him to interact with Jack in any way and have Jack mistake him as somebody I trusted.

I knew I had to ban him, quick. Who knows how many comments he would have put out.

But I wanted to do so in a clean manner that does not endanger the community.

@Nathaniel Parant

would probably say "you are thinking too much again" and joke about Bruce Lee's quote "Don't Think. Feel."

But I looked for contacts in my dm who were online at the time and asked them how I should act.

Luckily, a friend of mine,

@Richard Landeau

who is a community owner of a communications Skool community, now a member among us (edit), confirmed my suspicions and urged me to simply delete and ban.

And then I banned him.

I knew it was the right thing to do but it felt weird banning people for the first time.

However, knowing that my community is safe and that all of the active member here are ones I trust and respect made me sleep easy.

And hey my people! My friends and my team!

It's the start of a new week!

Let's gooooooooo!

Let's lighten the mood with a clip of

@Asha Hope

guiding

@Nathaniel Parant

and I to dance yesterday!

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