Glossary

Every term this site uses, in plain words. Alphabetical, no jargon defined using other jargon.

Application — a fulfiller's pitch on a request: a short "why me," plus the price they'll do it for (the listed price or their own counter). Posters see all applications side by side.

Auto-release — the safety valve for quiet posters. Once an approved delivery has waited 5 days with no response, escrow releases to the fulfiller automatically. Nobody's payment should depend on someone checking their inbox.

Away mode — a profile switch (Settings → Profile) that adds an "Away" badge to your profile and applications and warns direct requesters that replies may be slow. Sets expectations; locks nothing.

Block — makes a person unable to apply to your requests, send you direct requests, or message you. Button on their profile; your list lives in Settings → Profile. They're not notified. A job already in flight keeps its chat open until it resolves — blocking is a shield, not a sabotage tool.

Bookmark — the 🔖 on any request card. Saves it privately to Saved. Not a vote, not visible to anyone else.

Boost — paid visibility for a request: Spotlight ($5/24h, top of its category), Front page ($15/24h), Trending ($25/72h). Fixed prices, rotating slots, no bidding wars.

Brand account — a company account with a ✓ verified badge, earned by submitting business documents for human review. Gets campaigns, a public brand page, and analytics. Same fees and rules as everyone.

Campaign — a brand's folder of related requests with a shared theme, date range, and budget cap that stops new picks when reached.

Category — one of the 12 flavors of weird: custom videos, custom audio, art & design, writing, phone calls, errands IRL, stunts & challenges, pranks, local quests, performance art, software & web, and other weird. Every request lives in exactly one.

Custom offer — a formal price proposal sent inside a chat thread ("Make an offer"). The other side taps Accept or Decline. Accepted = it becomes the application's official price, and the eventual pick charges exactly that.

Deadline — how long a request stays open for applications before it expires (default 14 days). Expiry with no pick costs nothing; nothing was ever charged.

Deferred payout — money that's been released to a fulfiller who hasn't finished payout setup. It waits in escrow and retries automatically every few hours until their bank or wallet is ready. Money never vanishes; it waits.

Delivery — the submitted work: files plus notes. Every delivery passes human moderation before the poster sees it.

Direct request — a request sent to one specific person instead of the public feed ("Request @them directly" on a profile, or "Request @them again" after a finished job). Completely private — only the two of you can ever see it. Same moderation, escrow, and rules as a public request.

Discover feed — the public list of every open request, filterable by category, price, sort, and location. Lives at .

Dispute — the formal "this went wrong" process. Escrow freezes, both sides submit statements and evidence (up to 5 files each, 5 days for the response), and a human admin decides: full refund, full release, or a split. Final. Details: .

Double-blind ratings — after a completed job both sides rate each other, but neither rating is revealed until both are in (or 14 days pass). You rate the experience you had, not the retaliation you fear.

Escrow — the heart of the whole machine. When a poster picks a fulfiller, the money is charged and held by the platform — not paid to anyone — until the work is accepted (release), the deal falls through (refund), or a human referee splits it (dispute). Fulfillers never work unfunded; posters never prepay strangers.

Expiry — see Deadline.

Fulfiller — the person doing the weird thing. Not a separate account type — anyone can fulfill.

Hall of Fame — the podium of most-upvoted requests: daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, all-time. Pure community glory at .

Handle — your @name, your entire public identity. Permanent. Legal names never appear anywhere.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) — the open standard that lets AI assistants connect here. Public read-only endpoint at /webmcp/v1; authenticated acting-as-you surface via OAuth. Setup: .

Moderation — the human review every request, delivery, and report goes through (plus automated screening on messages and media). Reviewers see content, not identity.

On-time rate — the share of a fulfiller's deliveries submitted before deadline. Public on profiles after 3 completed jobs.

Pick — the poster's commitment moment: choosing one applicant. The card is charged (price + 5%), money enters escrow, the fulfiller's 7-day delivery clock starts, all other applicants are auto-declined with a notification.

Poster — the person paying for the weird thing.

Receipt — the printable record behind any money event. Charges, boosts, and tips on ; payouts and tips received on . Print → save as PDF.

Refund — escrow flowing back to the poster: fulfiller backed out, never delivered, or a dispute decided so. Free, full, to the original payment method.

Revision — the one do-over per request. The poster writes what's off; the fulfiller resubmits once. After that: accept or dispute.

Saved search — a filter combo on you've named and saved ("Save this search"). The site checks for new matches and notifies you instantly (hourly), daily, or weekly. Managed on .

Strike — the enforcement points system. Severity-weighted (late delivery 1, off-platform deal 3 = instant ban); 3 active points = banned; strikes decay after 12 months. Table: .

Tip — extra money a poster sends after accepting. The platform takes 0%; the fulfiller receives the tip minus only the exact card-processing fee.

Transaction ledger — the per-request money log: charge, hold, release, refund, fee, tip, payout — every event, timestamped, visible to the people in the deal.

Upvote — the public "this is gloriously weird" button on requests. Fuels the Hall of Fame. Separate from bookmarks (private) and ratings (post-job).

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