Community Guidelines

Jams, open mics, and lessons arranged here happen in the real world. Show up when you RSVP, or cancel with enough notice for the host to adjust. Play at the level of the room — a jam is not an audition, and nobody gets sneered at for being new. The same goes online: critique the playing if it's asked for, never the person.

Post-jam feedback is anonymous and feeds real reputations. Use it honestly — it's for helping the next host, not for settling scores.

Harassment, threats, stalking, hate speech, and slurs targeting who someone is — race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, age — get people removed. So does following someone across the platform to pile on after they've asked you to stop, sharing someone's private information, or sexualizing another user without their clear consent. There is no "it was a joke" exception.

Sharing your music is what this place is for — carpet-bombing it is not. Don't blast the same post into every group, spray recruitment messages at strangers who don't match what you need, chase engagement with bait, or run bots. If most of what a community sees from you is a link to your own stuff with nothing else attached, you're advertising at people, not making music with them.

Describe gear as it actually is — real photos of the actual item, honest condition, flaws disclosed. Price what you intend to honor, ship what you sold, and keep the deal inside the platform's payment and order flow, which exists to protect both sides and includes dispute resolution. Listing stolen gear, counterfeit gear, or things that aren't yours to sell is grounds for immediate removal, and stolen-gear reports are checked against listings.

The same honesty applies to services: session work, lessons, and commissions should deliver what was agreed, when it was agreed.

Students on this platform include kids, with parents and guardians involved through a scoped family portal. Adults interacting with minors — especially instructors — keep it professional, in-platform, and appropriate, full stop. Any attempt to move contact with a minor off-platform, solicit personal information, or behave inappropriately toward one is an immediate, permanent ban and, where warranted, a report to the authorities.

Covers at a jam are the lifeblood of the scene; uploading someone else's recording as your own is theft. Post clips, tracks, and releases you made or have the rights to share. If a rights holder tells us content is theirs, we'll take it down — and repeat infringers lose their accounts.

Reports go to a human moderation queue. Depending on severity and history, the response ranges from removing the content, to a warning, to restricting features, to suspending or permanently banning the account. Threats of violence, harm to minors, and fraud skip the ladder and go straight to removal. We'd rather keep one good player than ten who make the room worse.

You never have to wait for us to act on your own experience: you can block or mute anyone, immediately, from their profile — blocking cuts contact in both directions.

Every post, profile, and marketplace listing has a menu (the "…" button) with a Report option — pick the reason and add context if you can. Reports are confidential; the person reported is not told who filed it. For anything involving a minor's safety, or if you need to reach a human directly, contact us as well.