Communities For Creators

Community Owners have a variety of tools that let them manage their communities, interact with members, and to monetize their content. On Zion Social, Community Owners can do the following:

  • Set community rules

  • Approve/Deny join requests

  • Manage and remove members

  • Manage and delete conversations and comments that violate community rules

  • Manage community fees

  • Manage OpenChat

Managing Conversations and Comments

To manage Community posts follow the instructions below:

  • Navigate to the Community page you manage

  • Click the "..." on the top right-hand corner of your screen and click reports

  • View all reports from members about content they think violated the rules

  • Click on a conversation or comment you would like to manage. Choose whether to delete the post, remove the user from the group, or to ban the user from the group

Managing Members

To manage current community members follow the instructions below:

  • Navigate to the Community page you manage

  • Click the "..." on the top right-hand corner of your screen and click reports

  • Click on the member you would like to manage and click on their name

  • Choose to remove or ban the member and click on your choice

Join Requests

To manage join requestions follow the instructions below:

  • Navigate to the Community page you manage

  • Click the "..." on the top right-hand corner of your screen and click reports

  • Navigate to through the list and click "Confirm" to approve requests and "Delete" to delete them

Community Fees

Communities can have three fees to help Community Owners profit from their communities while also using fees to help reduce chances of malicious users in a Community as well as spam. These fees are:

  • Membership Fee: One time membership fee for all Community members when joining the Community. This is not refundable if a member is kicked or leaves

  • Posting Fee: A non-refundable fee for creating a post in a community feed. This makes members choose what content they feel is important enough to invest in a post creation.

  • Staking Fee: A refundable fee for posting content. This is a tool to prevent spam posts and malicious members from using sock puppets and bot accounts. Staking fees are kept for up to 8 hours and returned if the post is not taken down by community admins. Members who's posts that are penalized for breaking the rules will not be returned their staking fee.

Setting Community Fees

To set up your Community fees follow instructions below:

  • Navigate to the Community page you manage

  • Click the "..." on the top right-hand corner of your screen and click "Edit Community"

  • Input the fees you would like to set for each type of fee in it's respective input boxes and click "Save"

Deleting Your Community

To delete your community follow the steps below:

  • Navigate to the Community page you manage

  • Click the "..." on the top right-hand corner of your screen and click "Delete Community"

  • You will be promoted with a message asking you again if you wish to delete your community. Click "Delete Community" to confirm

Note: Once a Community is deleted it cannot be recovered. Additionally, all data from that community will be deleted, unless it is content shared from somewhere outside the Community.

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