Proposed chat solution for our Wholesaling Real Estate and other Skool communities using a web/circle of trust model.

@Sam Ovens

Sam Ovens', the CEO of Skool's link didn't turn blue. I guess I have to be in a community that he is in for this to happen. However, I'll bet Zach can reach Sam very easily :)

Currently our Skool wholesaling school community has 8 members out of almost 60K members that have admin level access.

What would happen if the admins could create a lower level of admin access called vouchers?

The vouchers would have two independent categories of vouching.

One category would be I met Joe Smith in real life at.

/// Proof would be demonstrated by them taking a selfie together with the person they are vouching for.

/// The admin and the voucher would post this to the "Web of Trust" category in the school community using their individual Skool accounts. This would be proof that the Skool members have met in real life. This is not complete proof of identity, but simply proof they are not a bot.

/// /// Once someone has been vouched for they will be able to vouch for other persons in the community that they have met in real life as long as they don't break their circle of trust.

/// /// This would solve the bot problem unless someone chose the break the circle of trust and vouch for a deep fake bot in which case they would no longer be in the circle of trust.

/// /// /// This would allow the vouching process to scale geometrically.

Another category would be I have JV'd with the person I am vouching for. For me this would carry more weight than the meeting in real life category. HUDs would be used for verification. Like the "I met at category", the circle would start with a member of the admin group. There would be a high probability that the person that is vouched for is really using their real name since their name is on the closing document, in particular the HUD. There is still a remote chance that the voucher used fake/fraudulent documents to close a deal. We can never completely prevent fraud, but we can significantly reduce it.

/// Once someone has been vouched for they will be able to vouch for other persons in the community that they have met in real life or JV'd with as long as they don't break their circle of trust.

/// /// This would allow the vouching process to scale geometrically.

Breaking the circle of trust.

/// The circle of trust is broken whenever a voucher lies about meeting or JVing with a person they vouched for. All people that have been vouched for in that chain of vouchers would no longer be in the circle of trust for the community unless they were also in the circle of trust from a different chain.

/// Any type of scammy and/or spammy type of activity will get you barred from being a part of the circle of trust. It would also break, at least temporarily, anyone that has been vouched for in the scammer/spammer's chain. They would need to be vouched for by a reputable voucher.

Option 2 would be to have Zach personally approve each and everyone's account one by one that he trusts to responsibly chat in the community. However, that would violate Exodus 18:21 :)

Exodus 18:21

English Standard Version

21 Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

I'm not a fan of belly aching about a problem. I much prefer to identify the problem and recommend solutions. The easier the solution is to implement, the better. The more scalable the solution is, the better.

@Zach Ginn

manually granting chat permission is not a scalable solution ;)

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