The Pledge

Things we never do.
Things we always do.

These are not aspirations. They are the terms of the deal, and you are allowed to hold us to every line.

You do not get a survey.
You get a vote.

Whatever leads when the race closes gets built first and gets a line in the public budget.

Two numbers on every proposal, and they never get added together. Counted is people who sent theirs in and were counted by hand. Yours is what you have picked in this browser, which is instant because it is on your device, and which has not reached us until you send it.

Every stage gets its own ballot.

Voltage is the main stage, but it is not the only one, and each stage votes separately. That means the crowd that shows up for one sound and the crowd that shows up for a completely different one are both picking their own lineup, not fighting over the same one.

Yes, that tends to sort people by genre. That is not a problem to solve. It means the Voltage crowd and the Lantern crowd can each get exactly what they came for, and it means somebody who only ever listens to one thing walks past a stage doing something else and might actually stop. That is a chance to hear something new, not a contest between camps. Majority rules on each stage, same as everywhere else on this page: one neighbor, one vote, and a bigger Reservoir commitment never buys a second one. If you want your pick to win, the only lever is the same one everyone else has — tell people. That is allowed, it is expected, and it is the only kind of marketing this page runs on.

Vote on what gets bought.

Sound gear, lighting, crew and volunteer apparel — whatever it is, it competes for the same Reservoir dollars as everything else on this page, and it gets decided the same way. Not who can pay the most: one neighbor, one vote, majority wins, and the money already committed above is what actually pays for it once something does.

Promises are cheap.
This one is counted.

How many people have said they are in, how many would buy a ticket, and how much has been committed. Counted by hand from what actually arrived, with the date attached, so you can tell a fresh number from an old one.

This page said no VIP.
Here is what changed, and why.

For months this page, the homepage and Cargo City all said "no VIP," flatly. That claim was true and it is now out of date, on purpose, and we would rather say so here than let old copy quietly disagree with a new feature. The full change is logged on the Receipts page, dated, with a consequence attached if we ever break the part that did not change.

What did not change, ever, no exceptions: the long table at Founder's Square is never a paid perk. Water and the capped meal price are identical for every single person here regardless of tier. Those are not promises pending proof — they are hard constraints on what a Patron perk is allowed to be, checked against this list before anything ships.

What did change: a real, higher-priced tier now exists, with real perks, and every dollar of it is earmarked to the Escrow Gates free-seat line, not general revenue. The reasoning, plainly: it funds more free seats than the Reservoir alone reaches, without raising the one general admission price on the page. If that reasoning stops being true in practice, the Receipts page is where that gets posted too.

Our biggest advantage is
a well-organized list of
everything people hate.

We collect complaints from Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, Discord, surveys and our own gates. Then every single one runs the same pipe. No feature ships unless it can name the complaint it came from.