Community rules

Joining a game is a commitment to three other people who have arranged their evening around it, and in most cases to a court somebody has already paid to book.

If you cannot make it, leave the game as early as you can so the seat can be filled. Dropping out inside twelve hours posts a line in the game thread so the others find out from you rather than from an empty court.

Hosts mark who turned up after the game. A missed game goes on your record permanently, and your reliability is visible to everyone before they let you into their game.

The level scale exists so nobody arrives to a mismatch. Deuce will not let you join a game outside the range its host asked for, so setting your level higher than it is only removes the games you would actually enjoy.

Playing below your level to be kind is fine and common. Claiming a level you do not have wastes the ninety minutes of everybody on the court.

No harassment, no abuse, no sexual attention that has not been invited, no discrimination on any grounds, and no pressure on anybody to meet you anywhere other than the court in the game.

The game thread is for the game. Do not use it to solicit, to sell, to campaign, or to contact somebody who has not asked to hear from you.

Deuce has no direct messages, by design. If somebody asks you to move a conversation off Deuce and you would rather not, you never have to.

Report a player from the game itself. It takes two taps and it goes to a student moderator.

Reports are treated seriously and confidentially. A report only appears as a number on somebody's public profile once a moderator has agreed with it, which is what stops reporting being used as a weapon.

A moderator can close an account outright, and will for anything serious rather than waiting for it to happen twice. Where something is a matter for the police we will say so and help you take it there.

A student moderator reads it and decides one of three things. A warning, which is recorded on the account and counts on its public profile. A ban, which closes the account immediately and completely. Or a dismissal, when there is no breach of these rules or not enough to go on.

Every decision carries a written reason, and that reason is sent to the people involved rather than kept in a file. If you are warned or banned you are told which rule and why, in a moderator's own words.

A dismissed report leaves no mark, and the person it was about is never told it existed. That is deliberate: a game has two to four people in it, so telling somebody they were reported would effectively name whoever reported them.

Decisions are final. A moderator team of one cannot run an appeals process, and promising one we could not answer would be worse than saying so. You can still delete your account and everything in it at any time, including after it has been closed.