The ban report
Automation makes it easy to publish a lot. Every major platform has rules written precisely against publishing a lot. This free guide maps where the lines are, so your kits stay on the right side of them.
App stores punish sameness
Apple's guideline 4.3 rejects apps that duplicate other apps or come from templates, and repeated rejections can end a developer account. Google Play has spam and minimum-functionality policies with the same intent. The Microsoft Store rejects apps without distinct value and can remove an account for repeated excessive submissions. The pattern behind all three: many similar apps from one account, submitted often.
- Ship fewer apps, each with a clear, different purpose.
- Cap submissions per day and per product, and never resubmit a rejected build unchanged.
- Make the listing promise only what the code does.
Video platforms punish repetition
YouTube's policies on spam and on repetitive, mass-produced content can remove monetisation or whole channels. Platforms look at sameness across uploads: the same template, the same voice, the same structure, many times a day.
- Publish at a human pace, with real variety in topics and formats.
- Keep uploads on official APIs and inside their quotas.
Search engines punish scale without value
Google's spam policies name scaled content abuse: many pages made mainly to rank, whether written by people or by models. Translated copies of thin pages count too.
- Build pages around data or tools people need, then translate.
- Cap daily output and check every claim before publishing.
Marketplaces punish fake activity
Fake testers, fake reviews, fake engagement and bought accounts break the rules of every store and marketplace, and of payment platforms too. No guard makes them safe. Our kits contain none of them.
The guards in our kits
Every LightsOut kit that publishes anything ships with daily caps, duplicate checks, policy pre-checks and quiet hours switched on. You can change the settings; the defaults are the ones that kept the lines running.
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