Update Post - September

Hello everyone! Today, I present the update covering the events of September. This update will be quite short, and I apologize for the lack of content lately.

First, I'd like to congratulate Agent Snow for winning the sapphire prize for scammer posts in September! Congratulations!

Also, I'd like to congratulate Agent Snow for being promoted to Sigma! Congratulations on that too!

Next, we didn't see the influx of new agents as we hoped. Additionally, our report form is almost dry. As a result, our activity in September almost hit a dead point. Therefore, we felt that it would be best to freeze posting starting this month, until we feel that we are ready to post again. We will still post update posts along the way to keep you updated on things in the society. But other than that, we won't be posting our other types of posts unless it's really important. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Finally, with the freezing of posts, we will undergo a lot of change and restructuring. We are considering expanding our watch to different children's games that have a scamming issue. The first one we are considering is Roblox. Though, that is only one of many possibilities. If you know any other children's games that could have a scamming problem, please drop it in the comments, or let us know on Discord!

That's all the updates for now. I truly hope we will soon be able to sort the society restructuring out and start posting normally again. As always, stay safe and jam on!

-Dew

Update Post - August

Hey all, Jade here with your update for the week of August!

First of all, we'd like to congratulate Galaxy for winning our monthly post contest! Great job catching the most scammers this month!

We've been discussing recruitment techniques and strategies recently, and hope to see an influx of new agents in the upcoming months. If you have any interest in joining the society, please head over to our Joining page and read through the information there!

If you aren't interested in joining the society but still want to contribute, you can submit scammers you find (with appropriate proof) to our Scammer Report Form, which we always appreciate.

Finally, if you aren't yet in our Discord server, we would love if you joined! Among many things, we host semi-weekly game nights and monthly events that anyone is welcome to participate in. We hope to see you there!

That's all for this month- stay safe, everyone, and Jam On!

Update Post - July

Howdy everyone! Danny here with your monthly recap post for the month of July 2021. It's been a bit of a quiet month for us, so this post will be nice and condensed.

To start, we would like to congratulate Rome on being the winner of our first ever monthly scam catching incentive! As the agent who caught the most scammers this month, Rome is now the proud owner of 400 Sapphires on Play Wild.

I'd also like to remind everyone that we host weekly game night events on our Discord server! Everyone who wants to is invited to participate, even if you are not a part of the AJSASS team. Game night is hosted every Saturday at 6:00 PM Pacific Time. Come join the fun!

As always, here's your periodic reminder that we'd love to hear about any scammers you've encountered! If you have evidence of a scammer you know, send it to us on our Report Scammers page and we may be able to use it to make a post about the scammer on the blog. Your contributions are very appreciated!

To top it off, we are almost always looking for new members to join the AJSASS team! If you're interested in helping us out, head over to the Joining page.

That's all for this month. I hope everyone has a great summer this year. Stay safe and jam on!

Monthly Update - June

Hello everyone! Flint here to tell you about the society updates for June 2021.

First off, we've been doing some internal work restructuring staff duties. This won't change much, except that you might see some staff doing different things. We hope this change will even the workload and reduce burnout.

As always, we also have our monthly events! We just wrapped up a fun game of Race through Jamaa, and are starting Undercover. Guests are welcome to join in, and we highly encourage you to participate. Check out our Discord server for more information!

We're also hiring! If you're interested in being part of our team, check out our Joining page for more info. We don't accept everyone, but it never hurts to send in an application.

And finally, our Report Form is open as well. If you have evidence of a scam taking place, we encourage you to submit it there. If we can turn it into a good post, we will!

That's all for today. Bye!

Monthly Update - May

Hey all, Jade here with your newest Monthly Update! Happy Pride Month to you all- now, let's get into the changes from May.

First of all, we'd like to welcome two new Gammas, Grave and Galaxy, to the team! You've already seen some posts from Grave, and you can expect to see some from Galaxy in the near future.

Last month, we mentioned a new system where staff are not included in the schedule, and instead are warned by the choice of agents through the usage of the Staff Activity Form. We've continued to use this system throughout this month and it has gone quite well! As staff, we hope to be able to maintain and help the society grow more effectively through this system.

Our most major change this month was opening game nights to the public on our Discord server. Game nights are hosted every Saturday at 6 PM Pacific Time. The games we play include skribbl.io, Drawful 2, Board Game Arena, and Quiplash. So far, game nights have been a super fun experience and a great way for us to get more involved with the non-agent members of our server! If you want to participate in our game nights, feel free to join our server through the link above or the widget on the sidebar!

We are also continuing our event rotation on the server- we played Egg Hunt throughout May and it went very well. This month, we're playing Race Through Jamaa! For event rules and sign-ups, you can join our server and check out the Events category.

Finally, we would like to remind you all that applications to join the society are open and available on our Joining page! If you have applied and were rejected before, you are welcome to reapply, but please remember the 3 month waiting period between applications. Additionally, if you aren't interested in joining the society, you are still free to join our Discord server or submit any scammers you find through our Scammer Report Form!

That's all for this post- thank you all for reading! Stay safe out there, and Jam On.

Monthly Update - April

 What's up everyone, and happy May Day to you all! Today, it's my turn to bring updates about the society for April. Let's go!

Over the past month, we trialed a system in which the staff are not included in the schedule. It worked well for us, and we intend to keep it this way until we need to change the schedule again. Don't worry if this seems unfair for the other Gammas and Senior Agents. We keep the warning system fair by allowing the Gammas and Senior Agents to warn staff members at the end of every month if they feel that our activity is lacking.

Next, I'd like to talk about the Scammer Report Form. We truly appreciate the effort that you all put in to help stop scammers from scamming. If you have evidence showing the scammer in their act, I strongly encourage you to head over to our Report Scammers page, and submit a Report Form! Before submitting a form, do remember to read the instructions stated on the page. Take them as a general guideline as what your pictures and recount should contain.

Next, we are open for new Agents to join the society. If you are eager and passionate about catching scammers with a knack for writing blog posts, I encourage you to check out our Joining page. 

Finally, I'm going to take a few moments to talk about events in the AJSASS Discord server. Every month, I will host an event in the server. Typically, the events start on the 7th of each month (in GMT), and end sometime later in the month. People who participate in the events stand a chance to win event gems, which can be used to buy powerups to increase your odds of winning. This is the current schedule for events:

Jan/Jul: Undercover

Feb/Aug: Where is it

Mar/Sep: What is it

Apr/Oct: Battle for the Bacon (no, it is not a typo)

May/Nov: Egg Hunt

Jun/Dec: Race through Jamaa

Details about each event can be found in our discord server. Anyone can participate in the events!

Well, that's all the updates from me now. Until next time!

-Dew

Monthly Update - March

Howdy everybody, this is Danny with our month-in-review for March 2021!

First things first, we'd like to extend a warm welcome to two new Gammas who completed their training this month - Snow and Blossom! Expect to see some posts from them in the future. If you're interested in joining our team and helping to write posts for our blog, head on over to our Joining page for all the info you need.

Next up, we have decided to make some alterations to the way our posting schedule works. As our team grows and we have more members writing posts, we have found it increasingly challenging to fit everyone into our monthly posting schedule. To remedy this, we have decided to remove all members of staff from the coordinated posting schedule. This doesn't mean you won't be seeing posts from us anymore, but rather that you will be seeing more posts from our Gammas and senior agents while the staff focus more of our attention on managerial duties. We will still make the occasional unscheduled post, but the bulk of our scammer posts and all of our Random Saturdays will be authored by our Gammas and senior agents going forward.

Like Flint said in last month's update post, we are open to arranging partnerships with other Animal Jam/WildWorks related Discord servers. If you are the owner of a server and you are interested in getting partnered with us, join our Discord server and reach out to our staff member Dew with your inquiry.

As always, I would like to remind our viewers of our scammer report form! While most of the scammers we publish posts about were encountered by members of our team, we also make posts about scammers that are submitted to us by our viewers. If you have sufficient evidence, we encourage you to check out the Report Scammers page and consider submitting it to us.

That's everything for right now. Stay safe and have a good April!

Monthly Update - February

Hello, everyone! Flint here, to give you the society updates for February!

Firstly, we've done some more outreach on our Discord server. We've joined Disboard, and we've made bridges with some other AJ-related servers. If you want your server to bridge with ours, you can DM Dew for more details.

We're also hiring! If you're interested in joining our team, go to the Joining page for more information. We don't accept every application, but if you're eligible and think you'd enjoy it, we encourage you to submit an application!

If you have evidence of a scammer scamming, and aren't in the society, we encourage you to submit a report form on our Report Scammers page! Remember to look over the evidence requirements listed on that page to make sure we can use your report form. If the images/testimony follow all those guidelines, your form will likely be made into a post!

That's all for this update. Bye for now!

Update Post - January

Hello everyone! Flint here to bring you the society updates for January 2021.

Firstly, we've altered our posting schedule. Scammer posts are now being posted less frequently. If we get an influx of new agents, we might increase scammer posts again, but for now we feel posting less is beneficial.

Secondly, we would like to welcome our new gammas Pluto and Fera! If you're interested in becoming a gamma as well, we encourage you to check out our Joining page and fill out the application. We're currently looking for new members, so now is a great time to join!

We've also fully released Events in our discord! Once a month, either me or Dew will host a text-channel game that anyone on the discord can join. We encourage you to join the discord (linked on the right sidebar) and participate in Events!

That's all I have for today. Goodbye!

Update Post - December

Hello everyone! Flint here to bring you the society updates from December 2020.

Firstly, we have decided to remove Agent Insights from the schedule, and only post them when there is something important we specifically want to say, or when something new comes to light that we want to make sure everyone knows about instead of making a new one every week. Agent Insights will still be a thing, they just won't be posted every Tuesday.

Second, you may have noticed that we have recently added a new page to the blog - the Rare Item Guide. Its purpose is to help people tell the difference between actually valuable items and less-valuable items that look very similar to the valuable ones. We hope this can help you all avoid scams involving scammers trying to convince people that un-glitched items are actually glitched, or that cheap yet similar-looking junk is actually rare. Go check it out!

We have also been working on some internal changes to things like the posting schedule. These decisions are not finalized as of yet, but we will let you know when they are.

We'd like to remind everyone that the Scammer Report Form is highly recommended if you have evidence of a scam and want it made into a post. Just remember to follow all the quality guidelines outlined on the Report Scammers page, and your form will likely be made into a post. We appreciate your contributions!

Finally, we are currently hiring! Just head on over to our Joining page for more details. Former agents who want to rejoin, please use the rehiring form instead of the regular application form.

That's all for now. Happy 2021!

Update Post - November

What's up everyone! Sorry for the late monthly update! Today, I bring you the update for November!

First, I'd like to congratulate Agent Quacc for being promoted to the rank of Sigma. Congratulations!

Next, there recently has been a couple of cases in which someone in our discord server posted spam links in chat. They have since been muted. We highly discourage you from posting such spam links in chat, because you could be permanently muted, kicked or banned.

Next, we have implemented some new society procedures regarding demotion from warnings. It can be viewed in the trials document here.

Finally, we are hiring! If you want to join the team, head over to the joining page and fill out an application form. We will contact you afterwards. For ex-agents who left but want to rejoin, please fill out the rehiring form instead.

That's all the news today. Stay safe and Jam on!

-Dew

Update Post - October

What's up everyone! I'm back from my leave and here to bring you your update for October!

October was a bit of a quiet month for the society. We didn't do much testing for the monthly events, which means that we cannot start it till a later date. Sorry about that!

On a brighter note, we'd like to congratulate Gamma Rose for being promoted to Delta! Congratulations!

Next, I'd like to remind all of you out there never to give your password to anyone you meet, especially those online. The only people who are probably ok to tell are your parents, if they ask. I'd also recommend you to give your password a checkup. Is it too easy to guess? If it is, it's more likely for hackers to gain access to your account by guessimg your password. So, change it to something that is hard to guess, but easy to remember!

Finally, the staff are currently working on a system to give quality checks on posts made by our agents. The idea is still new though, so please stay tuned to maybe next month's update.

That's all from me today. Until next post!

-Dew

Update Post - September

Hey all, Jade here with this month's update post!

To begin, we'd like to extend a warm welcome to Gammas Holly, Arrow, Riptide, Rivers, and Pepper. Congratulations on completing training and becoming part of the society!

Next, we'd like to remind you all of our Scammer Report Form feature. If you have a scammer to tell us about, you can head over to the report form and fill it out, and we'll use the evidence you give us to make a post! This is a much better method of alerting us to scammers than posting in our Discord server or in the comments on one of our blog posts, since it gives us the opportunity to review the situation and collect sufficient evidence. We encourage you to make use of the report form if you ever have evidence of a scammer in action!

Next, speaking of our Discord server, please feel free to join our server if you would like to chat with us! We've recently introduced a couple new features, such as a media channel, and are still working on testing for our seasonal game events. The link to join the server is also located in the sidebar of our blog. We'd love for more of you to come hang out with us!

Our applications are also reopened, now that our training system has been revamped. If you'd like to apply, head on over to our Joining page and read through the information there!

Finally, we would like to reiterate that you should never be attempting to impersonate anyone in our comment section. We review each comment carefully and will not approve any comments that appear to be posted with harmful intent, especially those that are part of an impersonation scheme. Please, do not impersonate anyone on this blog, no matter what your intentions are.

That's all for today- thanks for reading! Stay safe out there, and Jam On!

Update Post - August

What's up everyone! Today, I'm bringing to you your next monthly update!

So, first, we'd like to extend a warm welcome to Gamma Neon! Welcome to the society!

Next, we just finished testing undercover as an event. We are currently testing spyfall. Once we are done testing all events, we can begin our monthly events in our discord server. You may join it here!

Speaking of our discord, we recently started a new text channel that is all about advertisements. If you have a website or server that you'd like to be advertised in our server, just speak to one of the staff, and we'll help you through it.

Finally, the staff are currently discussing changes to the society training system for Omegas. As such, we have temporarily closed applications. Once the new system is all sorted out, we will open them up again.

That's the news for the month today. Stay safe, and Jam on!

-Dew

Update Post - July

Hey all, Jade here with your update post for the month of July. Let's get right into it!

First of all, we're happy to welcome two new agents to the team- Sunny and Aqua!

Next, we were finally able to get ownership of our Discord server transferred! Since we now have the ability to edit all roles, we have made major edits to our society ranking system, which you can read about here.

We are also still continuing testing of our new events for our Discord server. Once we are done with the testing, we will begin hosting an event once a month in the server. If you would like to participate, you can join our server at this link! We have also added reaction roles to the Discord for post pings, pronouns, and event pings.

Recently, there have been multiple incidents of people posing as others on our blog in order to attempt a scam or frame someone else for scamming. We would like to remind all of you that we review each application and comment carefully, and that we aren't going to fall for schemes such as these. Please, do not impersonate anyone on this blog, no matter what your intentions are.

Finally, we would like to remind you all to be careful when trading. There has been a recent influx of attempted S14 scams on the Animal Jam FANDOM page, using a variety of items. Please, do your research before trading, and don't put your trust in any trade that seems too good to be true!

Well, that's all for today! Thank you all for reading. Stay safe out there, and Jam On!

Update Post - June

What's up everyone! Today, I bring to you our monthly update for June! Without further ado, let's go!

First, we would like to welcome four new Agents to the society! Welcome Agents Aspen, Clover, Dede and Emerald! Additionally, we'd like to extend a warm welcome back to Agent Mage!

Next, we are getting really close to our target of 100 users in our Discord server! You might be asking, why do we want to hit 100? Well we want to overhaul the society ranks inside the Discord server. As seen from our rankings doc, some roles are currently locked. We want to change those locked roles. However, we can't do so right now, because only the server owner can do that, and our server owner has been inactive for about a year. Thus, we need to hit 100 users in order to request for a server owner change. You may help us reach that goal by joining our server! It is, after all, for everyone, not just agents.

Next, we have plans to host an event in our Discord server once every month. We currently have three working events, and we are currently testing out the fourth! We plan to start our monthly event schedule once we have at least six working events. If you have any ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments, or let us know through our Discord!

Finally, we now have a rehiring form for Agents who previously left, but wish to rejoin. The form may be found here!

That's all the updates today! Till next post!
-Dew

Update Post - May

Hey y'all, happy pride month! Jade here, with your update post for the month of May.

First, we're happy to welcome four new gammas to the society: Quacc, Bluebird, Queen, and Wolf!

Since we have an increased amount of agents, we will be continuing to schedule scammer posts on Wednesdays in addition to Thursdays. We're always glad to be able to increase our posting frequency and catch more scammers!

Recently, we have been discussing ideas to increase participation within our Discord server. As part of this goal, we've introduced a Pokemon bot into the server and have begun testing on another team event. We are also considering introducing movie nights and/or a music channel! In relation to this, we are still working on revamping our games channels. If you have any suggestions for casual games we could play in the server, please let us know in the comments!

Speaking of our Discord server, we'd love to invite you all to join! We're currently working our way up to 100 members so that we can transfer ownership of the server, and every additional person helps! Plus, we'd love to just hang out and chat with you.

Finally, as always- we're hiring! Check out our Joining page for more information if you're interested in joining the society!

That's all for today- thanks for checking in! Stay safe out there, Jammers.

Update Post - April

What's up everyone! Happy May day! Today, I'm bringing to you your monthly dose of SASS updates. Without further ado let's go!

April was the month of change for the society, as you could probably tell from the new colour scheme. Yes, that's right! We are now using more of a greenish shade rather than our old purple.

Next, we have a whopping six new gammas who joined our team! I'd like to extend a warm welcome to Gammas Mage, Timber, Styx, Shark, Noodles and Neutron!

I'd also like to congratulate Agent Shade, who has been promoted to the Theta rank! Congratulations!

Since we have so many new agents, we are able to increase the posting frequency as a society. We now have scheduled scammer posts on wednesdays and thursdays!

We also have revamped our report-a-scammer form. It may be viewed here.

Next, we are aware that some of our posts may have broken images. I implore you to bear with us as we fix the issue!

On another topic, the games in the fun and games channel are undergoing a revamp. As such, the fun and games rooms are closed till further notice.

Finally, we are discussing what kinds of posts have the potential to occupy the tuesday slots when we run out of ideas for Agent Insights. Don't worry, we are not ending it just yet, but we are preparing just in case we have to.

That's all the updates from me now. Till next post!

-Dew

Update Post - March

Hey all, Jade here with your update post for March!

First up for this past month: Omega Rose joined the society and was promoted to Gamma! We're glad to have them with us.

We have also created a Get to Know the Agents page, which you can check out here!

To help us keep better track of our posts and agents, we have created a society-wide database. It's not available for non-agents to view, but we're very proud of ourselves so we wanted to let you know anyways.

Finally, we have discussed creating social media accounts in order to better integrate with Feral when it is released- so, keep an eye out for that over the next few months!

Thank you all for reading! Please stay safe, especially with the virus going around right now. Stay home, wash your hands, and Jam On!

Update Post - February

What's up guys! Bit late, but I'll be reporting to you your Update post for February.

Firstly, we have made radical changes to the society ranking system. The alpha rank is no longer the highest rank -- it has been removed. Rather, society decisions will be made amongst staff. More information can be found here.

Next, we also have closed games and events in the society discord for the time being. If we get more members and the server becomes more active again, then we could open it up again.

Next, we will be resuming regular posting schedule with scammer posts every week and random saturdays and agent insights on alternate weeks.

Finallt, we are hiring! If you feel like you want to join the society, fill up a form under the joining tab!

That's all from me now, till next post!

-Dew