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Skool 101

Hello community members, if you are new to the skool platform, here are a couple tips to help you get the most of your experience here.

*** HOW TO EARN POINTS ***

Most communities have what the call "gamified" options where the platform is set up so that you can earn points to move up levels and it houses a leaderboard.

In order to gain points. OTHER PEOPLE have to either give you a like (the 👍thumbs up under your post or comments).

In order to get likes, you can:

Create a Post

Reply to a post

Reply to comments on a post.

All three of those give other people the chance to award you a like.

You can like your own posts, comments, or reply activities, but you will not earn points for liking your own activities. Please note that these points only apply to the individual communities you are in.

*** HOW TO EARN A FLAME NEXT TO YOUR NAME ***

The Flame symbol 🔥 can be earned after completing 30 days in a row of 10 activities or more.

What constitutes an activity?

You create a post

You reply to a post

You reply to a comment.

You like someone else's post/reply/comments

Please note the calendar day for the tracking of your activities is based on the UTC time zone. At the time of this writing, day roll over occurs at 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern

Also note that any days with no activities or less than 10 daily activities removes your flame and resets the 30 day accrual period.

These activities are accounted for all across Skool and do not need to be accumulated in any one community.

Do you need a flame? Not necessarily, it doesn't give you any additional benefits besides a flame symbol next to your name.

You can find your activity chart on your own profile by clicking on your profile picture in the upper right corner on the website or bottom right on the Skool app and selecting profile. The bar that shows little boxes of green will indicate your activity for the last 365 days. (See the 1st photo below)

A quick way to get your 10 activities if you wish to do that is to like 10 posts or comments right away or pick 5 posts and comments and give them both a like and a comment.

*** HOW TO GET A CUSTOM SKOOL URL FOR YOUR PROFILE ***

When you create your skool account, they give you a default profile address that includes your name and a series of numbers. If you would like to customize that, Skool requires 3 conditions to be met in order to make the change.

You must have:

90 Contributions (Posts or comments that have been given likes by others)

30 Followers (People who have chosen to follow your profile)

90 Days (You must be on the platform a minimum of 90 days)

Your activities for this show on your profile page in the sidebar that shows your profile picture. (See the highlighted portions of the 2nd Photo)

Please note Skool only allows you to change it once, so when you've met the conditions make sure to pick something you are happy with. The platform at the time of this writing is still relatively new so most people can get their own names as the the URL. For example I have already claimed http://skool.com/@RyanCameron.

*** SKOOL EASTER EGG ***

Skool has adopted a cartoonish cat as its mascot and you can unlock it by typing "Let There Be Cat" in the search bar of any commuity page.

The cat will appear on the main page. When it first comes in it will play music. If you click on the cat you have several music choices you can play, or just hit the Play/Pause button next to the one playing to turn off the music and keep the cat. (See the 3rd photo for where the cat will appear)

If you wish to turn off the cat, go into the seach bar and type in "Shoo cat" and it will go away.

If anyone has any questions or wants help. Please leave a comment below and I'll help you out with platform questions.

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