The room feels safer when the rules are explicit before anyone meets.

Discovery is intentionally constrained so the room starts with context, not total exposure.

• Public previews stay light: Public event pages expose the theme, city, host basics, and capacity, but not exact coordinates or meeting links.

• Sensitive details unlock after commitment: Exact addresses and join details are reserved for the host and participants, and coordination opens close to the event window.

• Enough profile signal is required: The app nudges people to complete core profile basics before they join, which makes the room feel less anonymous from the start.

• The format stays small: Nera Social is built for compact public-place rooms, not open-ended crowds or private-house free-for-alls.

Attendance is meant to be legible in the moment, not argued about after the fact.

• Event chat stays scoped: Group chat is limited to active or checked-in participants and only runs while the event window is actually live.

• Check-in uses proof: In-person check-ins are designed around a selfie plus venue-location confirmation, with a 200 meter threshold for being at the room.

• Credit stakes create commitment: Joining costs credits up front, and a qualifying check-in returns the stake with a 10% bonus instead of treating RSVP as free-floating intent.

• No solo farming: If only one person effectively attends, the stake can be returned, but bonus credits and reliability gains do not kick in.

The product keeps memory of behavior so trust compounds instead of resetting every week.

• Showing up raises reliability: Successful attendance improves your score, lower-rated members recover faster, and streaks add extra upside for consistency.

• Flaking costs more: No-shows take the heaviest hit, while late flakes can burn credits and raise the next join stake to 50 credits.

• Social proof follows attendance: Reviews, highlights, and host reputation are meant to come from real rooms rather than drive-by browsing.

• Direct messages are earned: One-to-one messaging opens only after three shared events create a Circle, and blocks shut that path back down immediately.

You do not need to wait for moderation to reclaim control over your experience.

• Direct contact shuts down: Blocks disable one-to-one messaging and remove blocked relationships from Circles and other social surfaces.

• Shared rooms can be redacted: If blocked people appear inside an event, they can be masked as "Hidden User" instead of staying socially open.

Reports are tied to a specific shared event, which keeps safety escalation grounded in something real.

• Only shared-event reports go through: The product only lets you report someone when there is a real event connecting both participants.

• Severity is explicit: Reports can be filed as minor, major, or severe, and duplicate reports for the same person in the same event are prevented.

• Reports auto-block: Submitting a report also creates a block so the situation does not stay socially open while review is pending.

The leave flow now accounts for block asymmetry instead of treating every exit the same.

• If someone else blocked you, you can leave cleanly: When another participant or the host blocked you, leaving can return your full staked credits.

• If you blocked them, normal penalties still apply: That rule prevents people from gaming the system by blocking first and then walking away without cost.