{"id":1503,"date":"2024-04-29T16:57:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T16:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2025-02-04T02:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T02:07:29","slug":"verify-your-kit-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/verify-your-kit-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement: Verify Your Kit Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love Kit, and we want to do our part to ensure that Kit remains a professional, trusted platform for Creators to share the products they love.<\/p>\n<p>Lately we\u2019ve noticed (as you may have as well) that Kit has been suffering from a spam problem. When we first acquired Kit from Patreon 2 years ago, Kit had gone without any significant maintenance for nearly 4 years.<\/p>\n<p>During this time, malicious users began to exploit Kit\u2019s weaknesses, promoting illegal\/malicious content, scammy products, and fake reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Since acquiring Kit, our mod team has worked hard to try to curb the existence of these accounts, but it\u2019s become too large of a problem to deal with manually. As such, starting today, we\u2019re beginning to roll out some important changes to Kit that we hope will de-incentivize and help manage future spammers, buying our team enough time to clean up the rest of Kit.co.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re starting small, but we hope to roll out additional vetting\/moderation features in the next couple of months to further secure Kits future as a trusted site.<\/p>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 26-03-2024 *\/<br \/>\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style>\n<h2>What does this mean for you?<\/h2>\n<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 26-03-2024 *\/<br \/>\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-2-1.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-2-1.png 778w, https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-2-1-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-2-1-768x646.png 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"778\" height=\"654\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From now on when editing your Profile, if you wish to share a link in your <strong>Bio<\/strong>, or want to share a link to your <strong>Website<\/strong>, it will require additional verification from your end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>Users with existing links in these fields will not be allowed to update these destinations until they have been verified. These changes apply ONLY to the <strong>Bio<\/strong> and <strong>Website<\/strong> fields within your Kit profile \u2013 the existing \u201csocial media\u201d fields for Patreon, Twitter, YouTube, etc. will still be editable without additional verification.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-1024x318.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-1024x318.png 1024w, https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-300x93.png 300w, https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4-768x239.png 768w, https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/image-4.png 1500w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"248\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please reach out to our support team at <a href=\"mailto:support@kit.co\">support@kit.co<\/a>, providing the following details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kit Profile URL \/ Username (eg. kit.co\/&lt;username&gt;)<\/li>\n<li>A link to your content outside of Kit \u2013 your website\/store, or social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Patreon, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After sending us these details, one of our team members will review your request, and will get your account approved for external linking as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love Kit, and we want to do our part to ensure that Kit remains a professional, trusted platform for Creators to share the products they love. Lately we\u2019ve noticed (as you may have as well) that Kit has been suffering from a spam problem. When we first acquired Kit from Patreon 2 years ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[14],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","author-at"],"authors":[{"term_id":14,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"at","display_name":"Austin Tuwiner","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-14-at-12.53.05-PM.png","url2x":"https:\/\/kit.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-14-at-12.53.05-PM.png"},"description":"Austin Tuwiner is a growth marketer and a main contributor to the Booklinker blog. 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