Organize / Who writes these

Outpost writes the campaigns. Users do not submit them.

Outpost publishes campaigns. Users do not submit them. Every campaign on this surface was written by Outpost, carries a source for every factual claim in it, and passed the same gates a library volume passes.

Founder, 2026-08-11: 'all organize events should have to be approved by Outpost so as not to tarnish our name... or maybe we should auto populate our own from time to time in accordance w the times & stop allow users to submit.' Both halves of that sentence point the same way, and the second is stronger than the first: an approval queue still means a stranger's campaign carries our name while a human reads it, and the queue is the thing that fails at 2am on a holiday weekend. Publishing our own is the only version where nothing bearing this organization's name was written by somebody we cannot call.

What that means for you

By joining a published campaign, by using the levers on their own behalf with the procedures we publish, and by writing to us. Participation is wide open; authorship is not.

Submission status: CLOSED — structurally, not by policy. No submission endpoint exists on this surface, which is why no moderation queue can be overwhelmed and no unreviewed campaign can appear during an outage.

What would reopen it: User-submitted campaigns may reopen when three things exist: the staff-role authorization that Track AJ built and left unmounted, a moderation rota with named humans and a stated response time, and counsel review of the liability an organization carries for a campaign published under its name. Until all three, this stays closed and this field says so.

The guidelines every campaign is held to

Every campaign Outpost publishes on this surface, without exception, including the ones written in a hurry because the news moved.

• nonviolence

  Nonviolent, always, with no exception and no wink. A campaign that names, praises, hints at, or leaves room for force against a person or property does not publish, and the automated lawful_gate is the floor of that rule rather than the whole of it.

  Founder, 2026-08-11: 'non violent ofc'. It is also the condition on which the boycott's own constitutional protection rests — Claiborne Hardware protects the peaceful boycott and expressly does not protect the violent one.

• a demand not a grievance

  Every campaign states what specifically would end it. A campaign with no stated end is a mood, and a mood cannot be won, conceded to, or honestly reported on.

  It is also the difference between organizing and harassment, in the eyes of the reader and of a court.

• sourced conduct

  Every factual claim about a named organization or official carries a source a reader can open — a filing, a docket, an audit, a published record. No claim rests on our say-so or on a summary of somebody else's summary.

  Rule 5 of this project, applied where it matters most. A campaign is a claim about a real party with real recourse.

• no verdict

  We report the record and name the demand. We do not pronounce guilt, criminality, or motive. Litigation is described as filed, pending or decided — never as proof of what was alleged.

  Inherited whole from the Watch's non-accusation rule and the Civil Rights organ's charter. An overseer that convicts has become a court.

• no promised outcome

  No campaign promises it will work. Joining is not winning, signing is not law, and a page that implies otherwise has lied to somebody about what their afternoon bought.

  Inherited from the Transparency Toolkit's own gate, and for the same reason: a person who was promised a result and got none does not conclude that organizing is hard. They conclude that we lied, and they are right.

• the real cost

  Every campaign states the real cost of participating in time, money and risk — including legal risk — before it asks for anything.

  The Action organ's duty-holder charter requires exactly this: 'name the real cost in time and risk before the action.'

• no minors

  No campaign recruits, tracks, or scores a minor. The action ladder already excludes minors structurally, and this surface inherits that whole.

  Existing project invariant; the leaderboard system rejects minor events by construction.

• the lawful line

  Every campaign states plainly which of its steps are legally protected activity and which carry exposure — and routes anything at real stakes to a lawyer rather than to us.

  The Digital Experts principle: law goes to real professionals.

• an exit

  Every campaign says how to stop being part of it, and leaving costs a person nothing — no streak lost, no standing dinged, no message.

  The project ships nothing that holds. The arcade's own build gates already forbid streaks; a campaign is not exempt because its cause is good.

• we correct in public

  When a campaign of ours turns out to be wrong about a fact, the correction goes on the campaign itself with the date, and the campaign is not quietly deleted.

  The library's edition rule. An organization that deletes its errors has no record, and a record is the only thing we are actually selling.