Discussions

Discussions is the platform's community Q&A. Ask when you are stuck, answer when you know, and share what you have built. Reading is open to everyone; you must be signed in to post, vote and answer.

Open Discuss → Recent in the sidebar, or the Discussions tile on the home page.

Finding things

Tab	Shows
For You	Posts matched to your interests — see Recommendations
Recent	Newest first
Popular	Most active
More → Featured, Your Favorites, This Week, This Month	Staff picks, what you saved, and recent highlights

Switch between card and list views, and use Search discussions… to look across everything. Search before you ask — your question may already be answered.

Ask a question or start a discussion

1. Select Ask Question.

2. What are you posting? Pick the type, because readers respond to each one differently:

   Type	Use it for
   Question	You want a specific answer. People post answers and you pick the one that solved it.
   Discussion	Open-ended — opinions, show-and-tell, reviews, polls. Replies thread like a conversation.

   The type is locked after posting.

3. Title — at least 3 words. Be specific, as if asking a person.

4. Description — everything someone would need to answer: what you tried, the exact error, what you expected.

5. Tags — pick 2 to 5. Type to search the full tag list.

   On many platforms you only write the description

   Your platform can write the title and tags for you. When it does, the Title and Tags fields are hidden while you ask: you write the description, and the title and tags are generated from it when you post (a post with no suitable tag gets general). Both fields appear when you edit the post afterwards, so you can correct them.

6. Check Similar questions already asked, which appears as you type. If one matches, read it first.

7. Optionally, Also share in one of your clubs.

8. Post, or Save draft to finish later. Drafts are under Drafts.

Shown on labs.selfmade.ninja, the Selfmade Ninja Academy platform. On your own platform you will see your own domain and data.

When your question is live you get a notification, and another whenever it gets an answer.

A question that gets answered

Include the command you ran and the full error text, say which lab you were in, and what you have already tried. Screenshots help; passwords and keys in screenshots do not — blur them.

AI help while you write

The editor has AI buttons that tidy your post before you send it.

Free	1 ⚡ Jolt each
Proofread, Format, Clarity, Check duplicates, Tone check	Explain jargon, Rewrite

The AI also suggests a title and tags as you write. You always see the change before it is applied.

The paid chips charge 1 Jolt, and only when they succeed. If you have no Jolt, they tell you so and nothing runs.

AI help while you read

On any post, Conjure AI gives you a quick take:

Free	1 ⚡ Jolt the first time, then free
TLDR, Skills needed, Effort estimate, Key takeaways	Simplify it, Actionable steps, Remove fluff, Practical example, Challenge this

Paid results are saved, so opening the same one again costs nothing.

These AI tools appear only where your platform has them switched on.

A few more rules:

• Saved per post, for everyone. A result is stored on the post itself. Once anyone has opened Simplify it on a post, everyone who opens it later gets the saved result free.
• Redo costs again. Regenerating a saved result runs the tool again, and a paid tool charges its 1 Jolt again.
• Some results appear on their own. A new answer gets a TLDR a moment after it is posted, an answer gets Key takeaways when it is accepted, and a Discussion gets a thread summary when it reaches its third reply. None of these costs anyone Jolt.
• Hourly limit. Each account can make up to 60 AI requests an hour across all of these tools. Opening a saved result does not count. When you reach it, you see You've hit the hourly AI limit of 60 calls. Try again in N minutes. The count starts again at the top of each hour.

Answering, voting and accepting

• Answer a question, or comment on a post or answer. Mention someone with @username to notify them.
• Vote up or down. Downvoting unlocks as you earn Zeal — see Rank & Privileges.
• On your own question, accept the answer that solved it. It is marked Accepted answer and the author is notified.
• Favorite posts to find them later under Your Favorites.
• Posts keep an edit history, so changes are visible.
• React with an emoji on a question, answer or comment.
• You cannot vote on your own post (Self vote is not allowed).
• Only the person who asked can accept an answer.
• Editing someone else's answer sends your change as a suggested edit rather than changing it directly. Suggesting and approving edits are privileges you earn with Zeal — see Rank & Privileges.

Answering, voting and accepting do not pay out Zeal or Jolt by themselves.

When you are notified

• Your post is live.
• Someone answers your question, or comments on your post.
• Your answer is accepted.
• A moderator removes your post — the notification carries the reason.

Reporting and moderation

Report a post that breaks the community guidelines. Pick a Reason; some reasons ask for a short explanation. Reporting unlocks with a small amount of Zeal.

Moderators review reports. When they remove a post, the author is notified with the reason, and can appeal if they think it was a mistake.

What a removed post looks like

The post's text is replaced by a notice, and everyone sees why:

Notice	Meaning
The author removed this post.	Deleted by the person who wrote it
This post was removed by a moderator.	Removed, with the public reason and a See guideline link where one applies
This post has been hidden by a moderator pending review.	Hidden while a moderator reviews it

The same wording is used for an answer or a comment.

Appeal a removal

Only the author of the removed post sees these buttons:

1. On the notice, select Disagree & request review.
2. Add a short note if you want to explain, and send it.

Your appeal goes to the moderators' queue. Sending it again adds to the same appeal rather than creating a new one. Community guidelines next to the button opens the rules the decision was based on.

Use your own domain

labs.selfmade.ninja is the Selfmade Ninja Academy's own platform, used here as the example. If your school or company runs its own copy of Selfmade Ninja Labs, use your platform's domain instead. It is the address you open the dashboard at.

Next steps

• Clubs — smaller communities around a topic
• Learn AI — when you want a whole lesson instead of an answer