Community Guidelines

Last updated · May 27, 2026

Fabric is a room of founders who chose to spend an hour with other founders. These guidelines exist to keep that room worth the hour — for everyone in it.

What we’re after

Honest, generous conversations between people who are actually building something. The seven-minute format is short on purpose: enough time to understand what someone is working on and where they’re stuck, not enough to pitch. The follow-ups that matter happen after the session, between people who decided they wanted to keep talking.

What you commit to when you show up

Be on time. The pairings are computed at the start of each round. Late arrivals miss rounds and degrade the pairing experience for everyone present.
Camera on. This is a face-to-face room. If your camera is broken, drop a note in the lobby and we’ll work it out.
Show up sober and rested. A seven-minute conversation with someone who can’t track the thread is worse than no conversation.
Listen at least as much as you talk. Two people monologuing past each other isn’t a conversation.

What’s not OK

Any of the following is grounds for removal. We don’t do warnings for the worst items — harassment in particular is a one-strike rule.

Harassment, hate speech, or threats. Includes targeted insults, slurs, and content directed at a person’s identity. No appeal on this one.
Sexual content or advances. Fabric is not a dating platform. Unwelcome romantic or sexual advances toward another member end the account.
Pitching for investment or sales. You can mention what you’re building. You can’t use a session to pitch a check, push a product, or recruit. Save it for the warm intro.
Spamming, scraping, or recruiting. No bulk DMs, no using the roster as a lead list, no pulling other members’ contact info for unrelated purposes.
Recording or screenshotting without consent. What gets said in a breakout is off the record unless both people say otherwise. Don’t record. Don’t screenshot. Don’t paste excerpts into Slack or Twitter.
Repeated no-shows. RSVP’ing and not showing up wastes the room’s time. Three no-shows in a six-month window loses you access. (If life happened, email us — we’re humans.)
Misrepresenting yourself. Fake names, fake companies, fake roles. The roster only works if it’s accurate.
Weaponizing the rating system. Ratings are private to you. They’re for your own memory, not retaliation. A one-star to someone who declined a follow-up gets the rating discarded and your account flagged.

Notes and ratings are private

After each conversation, you can rate the person you just met, add a few tags, and write a private note. None of this is visible to them. Your roster is your own personal CRM of the founders you’ve met. We don’t show your notes to other members. We don’t average ratings into a public score. We don’t sell them. We don’t train AI on them. They’re yours.

That said: please write notes you’d be OK explaining if asked. We can read them — it’s a private database, not an encrypted vault — and we will read them if a moderation report involves the person you wrote about.

Reporting someone

Inside any breakout, there’s a Report button. After a session, you can also report from the Conversations pane. Reports go to a moderation queue we review within 48 hours.

A report is not an automatic ban. We read the report, look at the accused account’s recent activity, and (where relevant) reach out to both sides. Decisions are: dismiss, warn, or remove. We’ll let the reporter know what we did and why.

If you’re the one who got removed

Email hello@fabrictest.us. We’ll tell you which guideline was violated and (for non-one-strike issues) what a path back might look like. For harassment, threats, or sexual misconduct, removal is permanent.

Moderation transparency

We publish an annual moderation summary: how many reports were filed, how many resulted in removal, the rough categories. No names, no report contents — just the shape of the system. The first one publishes 12 months after general availability.

Contact

Questions about these guidelines, or want to flag something that doesn’t fit a report? Email hello@fabrictest.us.