Has anyone ever reached level 9? I was excited to build a community on Skool mainly because of the points system and being able to unlock content at different levels. But when I dove into how many points each level required and the ways to earn points it seems almost impossible to achieve the top level (9). Here is the points levels from what I have seen: Level 1 - 0 pts Level 2 - 5 pts Level 3 - 20 pts Level 4 - 65 pts Level 5 - 155 pts Level 6 - 515 pts Level 7 - 2015 pts Level 8 - 8015 pts Level 9 - 33015 pts Level 10 - ? Never before seen, but suppose to be one. Seeing as pretty much every level is about 4x as many points as the previous level, it makes sense that Level 9 is that high. The smaller levels have less of a multiplier and only need roughly 3x as many points as the previous level. Level 9 is unachievable, even for an admin. If someone were to achieve level 9 within 5 years of consistent posting/commenting that would mean they would need to average 17 points/day for 5 years straight. To achieve a level 8, someone would need to average 4 points/day for 5 years. For instance, Tedd Carr is a Level 6 - Grandmaster with 1530 points. He joined in Feb 2022. So achieved this in 11 months with an average of just over 4 points/day. It will take Tedd another 4 years to achieve Level 8 at this pace. And this is in a community of 9,600 members, which is pretty decent. Another example is Sid Sahasrabuddhe, who actually works for Skool, is Level 7 - Goat but has 5576 left before reaching Level 8. Sid seems to have joined in Dec 2019, so he has been at this for a little over 2 years. How does someone get points in order to move up in the ranks? You need to create a Post or Comment on someone else's post... but you don't get points for that... someone ELSE needs to Like (👍 ) your Post or Comment and you get 1 point for either of those. I've seen it recommended to put your rewards at levels 3, 5 and 7. So once a member reaches level 7, other than being a helpful person and giving into their habit of posting/commenting, there is no longer any incentive for these top contributors to be a part of the community.

We’ve switched our group to public to get the indexing and search hits but have a question. How much of our content should we leave open? We will in time be adding paid course content within classroom but do you all think there is a need to put other content behind say level 2? Observers can then see community chat and some content but would have to chip in a little to see the rest? As far as I am aware there isn’t an option to make classroom content available only to people with a Skool account that have joined the group?!

Hello @Sam Ovens can you update us on the ETA the delivery/update of Skool subgroups.

Currently there are only 3 ways to get points on Skool... 1) You can make posts in the community and hope to get likes on your posts. 2) You can comment on posts and hope to get likes on your comments. 3) You can reply to to comments and hope to get likes on your replies. But what if you're an introvert or lone wolf who doesn't want to make posts, comment, or reply? Or what if you're just mega focused on course work and feel the community is a distraction/waste of time? Or what if a community is 'dead' and doesn't give you the likes you deserve? Or what if you don't speak English that well and suck at interacting w other people in english? How can you get points, level up and access new course material or the bonuses then? You can't. Or at least, not very well. Because you're relying soley on other people's approval and validation for your progress. And that's an issue. Because most of my membership materials & bonuses get unlocked as you level up... and I've already had several members in my community reach out to me and tell me they want to level up but don't want to make posts, comment, or reply just to get points. + I'm part of a Skool group with only 15 members, only 5 of which are active, so it makes it incredibly hard to get points & level up. So what's the solution? What if you could also get points by watching course material? Call em "Progress Points" Or what if you could also get +1 point each week just by remaining a member? Call em "Member Loyalty Points" Or what if you could also get points by completing a quiz? Call em "Quiz Completion Points" These are just some ideas. Happy to hear yours below.