Night Conduct

What this is

A Gamestead night happens in someone's store, library, bar, backyard or living room. This page is the deal between you and Full Uproar Games, Inc. about how people behave at one.

It applies to everybody at a night: guests, hosts, and venue staff who use Gamestead to run it. If you host a public night at your home, you also accept the Host Agreement, which covers the things only a host is responsible for. This page is the part everyone shares.

You agree to it when you RSVP.

The short version

Be someone other people are glad showed up. These six are the ones we hold people to:

1. Treat people decently. No harassment, slurs, threats, intimidation, or sexual attention nobody asked for. Not at the table, not in chat, not afterwards.

2. Keep a host's home private. If you are given a private address, it is yours to use once, to get to that night. Do not post it, forward it, pin it, or pass the invite link or QR code to anyone the host did not invite. Break this one and you lose your account. An address in the wrong hands puts a person at risk, in their own home.

3. Respect who the night is for. Every night carries an audience tag: all ages, 13+, 18+ or 21+. Do not bring someone the tag does not cover, and do not talk a host into bending it.

4. Follow the host's rules and the law where you are. The host sets what happens in their space: what is served, what gets played, when it ends. Alcohol, substances and anything illegal are the law's business and the host's, not ours to re-decide for you.

5. Ask before you photograph or record anyone. A night is not content by default. If someone says no, that is the end of it, and that includes streaming and posting afterwards.

6. If you are asked to leave, leave. A host or venue can end your night without a reason and without an argument. Take it up with us afterwards if you think it was wrong.

And if you say you are coming, come, or tell the host you cannot. A home host counted chairs and bought snacks for you. Nobody will throw you out over it. It is just the thing your reputation here is actually built from.

Don't use someone else's night as a venue for your own business

Do not come to a night to sell, recruit, canvass, proselytize, or collect contact details for something else. If you want to reach the people on Gamestead, run your own night.

What we do

We verify email addresses on every account. Before a stranger can attend a public night at someone's home, both the host and that guest complete government-ID verification through Stripe Identity, and a home's exact address stays hidden until the host has accepted the guest and the guest is verified. We enforce age gating on nights tagged 18+ and 21+. We give you a way to report a person or a night, and a way to block someone, and we read what comes in.

What we do not do

We do not run background checks on anyone, and we do not intend to. Consumer background checks are unreliable and the confidence they create is worse than the information they give.

ID verification tells us who someone is. It tells us nothing about how they will behave. It makes impersonation harder. That is the whole of what it does.

We are not a security service, a chaperone, an insurer, or a referee, and we do not promise that any night will be safe, that anyone will behave, that anyone will show up, or that nothing will go wrong. We do not watch nights as they happen. We are a platform that helps people find each other and keeps a home's address out of the wrong hands.

Use the judgment you would use going to any gathering of people you do not know yet. You are allowed to leave at any time, for any reason, and you never owe anyone an explanation for doing it.

If something is an emergency, call emergency services (911 in the US). We are not an emergency service, we are not an investigator, and we are not a party to a police matter. We do not dispatch anyone, we do not step into a night that is happening, and we are not a way to reach anybody quickly. Nothing you send us changes what is going on tonight.

If something goes wrong

Tell us afterwards, once you are safe and ready. Use the Report button on the night, the person, or the message, or write to gamestead@fulluproar.com.

A report to us does a different job than an emergency call. It decides who gets to keep using Gamestead: whether someone stays, whether a night comes down, whether a venue keeps its access. It is not an investigation, and we cannot establish what happened between people who were in a room we were not in.

We read every report. We cannot promise you a deadline or a particular outcome. We will tell you when we have acted on something you reported, unless telling you would put someone else at risk.

What we may do about it

Depending on what we find, we may remove an RSVP, remove a night, stop you from publishing or joining public nights, suspend an account, or remove a venue's access. In serious cases we do that immediately and ask questions afterwards. Where there is time, we ask first.

None of that is a promise to watch. If we have not acted on something, it does not mean we approved it.

If a law enforcement agency serves valid legal process, we may share information consistent with our Privacy Policy.

Changes

We can update this page. When we change something that matters, we bump the version and ask you to accept the new one before your next RSVP. The current version is always at gamestead.app/night-conduct, and the version you accepted is the one that applied to you.

One last thing

We are not responsible for how anyone behaves at a night, including our own staff when they are there as people. What we expect of each other is above, and so is what happens when someone treats it as optional.

Most nights, none of this comes up. Go play something.