Community Resources — Templates and Checklists

Publish-first checklist

Before recruiting a single community member, publish on a domain you control:

• Contract address, exactly, with the chain stated
• Official channels, listed authoritatively so members can verify
• "We will never DM first"
• "Nobody will ever ask for your seed phrase"
• "We never run giveaways requiring you to send funds"

The highest-value hour of work in the whole exercise. Impersonation begins as soon as you are visible.

Community rules template

1. No financial advice. Explain mechanics; do not tell people what to buy, sell, or when.
2. Disclose paid promotion, in the post, every time — not once in a bio.
3. Disclose holdings when discussing a token you hold.
4. No coordinated buying or selling, however casually framed.
5. No misrepresentation of partnerships, audits, listings, or identity.
6. Substantiate factual claims — be able to point at where they can be verified.
7. Criticism is welcome; personal abuse is not.

Moderation posture: hard on fraud, impersonation, manipulation and abuse. Light on opinion, criticism and hard questions.

Project update structure

1. Since last time     — what actually shipped
2. Did not happen      — what slipped, and why
3. Next period         — what you are working on
4. Numbers             — verifiable metrics, same ones each time
5. Open questions      — what you do not yet know

Section 2 is the one that builds credibility, and almost nobody includes it.

Pick a cadence you can sustain during a bad month, not an enthusiastic one.

Incident update format

1. What happened, factually
2. Impact — who is affected, and how
3. What we are doing now
4. What we do not yet know
5. When the next update will come — then publish it on time

Rules: publish before you have all the answers; do not minimise; "we do not know yet" is a complete answer; say what changes so it does not recur.

Transparency disclosure list

The test for every item: could someone verify this without contacting us?

Promotion checklist

• Every paid relationship disclosed, in the promotion, every time
• No price, return, or performance claim
• Every factual claim backed by something verifiable
• Audit claims match what the report actually says
• Partnerships agreed in writing and known to the other party
• No purchased followers, engagement, volume, or holders
• Contract address included
• "We will never DM first" included
• Promoters contractually required to disclose

The test: could someone act on this, lose money, and reasonably say I told them to?

AMA checklist

• Questions collected in advance, publicly visible
• Hardest questions identified and answers prepared
• Hard questions answered first
• "I do not know" used where true, with a follow-up commitment
• No price commentary
• No unconfirmed announcements
• Hostile questions answered on substance, not tone
• Transcript published within a day
• Commitments tracked and followed up

Metrics worth tracking

Ignore (all purchasable): follower count, member count, message volume, engagement rate, impressions, giveaway participation.

Track instead:

• Unprompted substantive questions
• Members answering each other without the team
• Retention through quiet periods
• Bug reports and criticism received
• Independent content nobody paid for
• Holders reporting impersonation before you notice
• Repeated support questions declining over time
• Preventable losses among holders — the one that matters

Launch-week checklist

• Contract address published before the announcement
• Community warned that impersonators will appear
• Someone monitoring replies during and after
• No giveaway running alongside (it gives fake ones cover)
• Liquidity live before announcing
• Spokesperson decided for the first incident
• Follow-up update planned regardless of how it goes

Guides

Concepts

• Build a Healthy Token Community
• CoinDock Community Guidelines
• Project Transparency Guide
• Token Announcement Strategy
• Holder Education

How-to

• How to Launch a Token Community
• How to Write Project Updates
• How to Host a Project AMA
• How to Promote a Token Responsibly
• How to Educate Token Holders

Reference

• Community Glossary