StoopIn effect since 2026-08-09
Community guidelines
Circles work because a handful of people keep turning up for each other. These are the things that make that possible, and the few that end it.
The short version
Turn up. Be who you said you were. Treat the group as something you are part of rather than something you are shopping in. If someone asks you to stop, stop.
Turning up is the whole thing
A circle is five or six people who agreed to be somewhere on a Tuesday. One person quietly not coming is the difference between a group and an awkward evening. You do not have to make every session — you do have to say when you cannot.
Leaving a circle is fine and always will be. Leaving without saying so is what we ask you not to do.
Be one real person
One account. Your own name and your own photo. If you verify, verify as yourself. Accounts that impersonate someone, use another person's photos, or exist to run the same person twice are removed — that is what the fake profile report is for.
This is not a dating app, and behaving as though it is ends it
People here are looking for friends, a routine, and somewhere to be. Treating a circle as a source of dates — pursuing someone who has not shown interest, steering group conversation at one person, or joining to work through a room — is the fastest way to lose an account.
If two people find each other, that is theirs and none of our business. The line is consent, and the line is obvious to the person on the other side of it.
Harassment
No abuse, threats, slurs, or sustained contact after someone has asked you to stop. No targeting someone for who they are — race, religion, disability, gender, sexuality, age. None of this depends on whether you meant it as a joke.
You can block anyone from any conversation, immediately, without explaining yourself to us or to them.
What you send
No sexual content, no violent content, nothing illegal, and nothing you do not have the right to share. Do not post another member's details — their address, their workplace, their photos, their messages — anywhere, including outside Stoop.
Do not sell, recruit, or collect
Circles are not a lead list. No selling, no promoting your business, no recruiting for a cause or a company, and no gathering members' information for use elsewhere.
Meeting in person
We design first meetups to be in public venues. Beyond that, use your judgement: tell someone where you are going, arrange your own way home, and leave whenever you want to, without needing a reason.
If something happens that worries you, file a safety concern — that is the report we treat most seriously. If you are in immediate danger, contact emergency services first. We cannot act at that speed and will not pretend to.
What happens when someone reports you
Reports go to a person, not to an automated system. Depending on what is found, the outcome is a conversation, removal from a circle, or removal from Stoop. A serious safety report can end an account immediately and without a warning first.
We do not promise how fast. There is no queue commitment here because there is no queue commitment in the product, and we would rather say that than publish a number nobody is held to.
If someone reports you, we may not tell you who did. Protecting the person who spoke up matters more than your right to know which member it was.
If you think we got it wrong, reply to us at hello@stoop.place. A person will read it.