Info & FAQ

Every eligible lobby message earns a random amount between 15 and 40 XP. However, only one message every 45 seconds counts. Anything you send before that timer is up earns no XP.

Spam does not count either. This includes messages that are 95% similar to one of your own messages from the last 10 minutes, and excessive pings.

Yes. Every corridor point earned from trivia or from votes on your quotes and memes is also worth 5 XP.

There is one catch: a post only gives you XP when its corridor points reach a new high. If your post later loses votes, the XP you already earned stays with you.

Each new level takes more XP than the previous one. The higher you climb, the longer the climb gets.

Here are a few milestones:

You can use the XP calculator in level-logs to check how far you are from your next level.

The Hall Monitor announces every level-up in level-logs. That's also where you'll find your level card, an XP calculator and personal insights showing your messages and XP over the last 30 days.

Every 10 levels, you unlock a new rank. Your previous ranks stay unlocked, but your name takes the colour of your highest rank.

Every new rank comes with a one-time corridor points bonus. The amount depends on the rank, and the twelve rank bonuses are listed in the ranking system section.

Deity is a special title given to whoever has the highest level. In other words, it belongs to the person who has climbed the furthest.

There is only one way: an invite being taken back. This happens when a friend you invited deletes their account or gets banned.

When that happens, the XP from that invite is removed, and your level and ranks adjust to match your new total.

There are five ways to earn corridor points:

• Trivia: The first right answer to a trivia question in the lobby wins 5 to 20 corridor points.
• Votes: Each net upvote on your quote or meme earns 2 corridor points.
• Rank-ups: Reaching a new rank gives you a one-time bonus.
• Profile rewards: Completing profile details gives you 20 corridor points per item.
• Invites: Each qualifying friend you bring in earns you 30 corridor points.

The exact rank-up bonuses are listed in the ranking system section.

Your weekly and all-time totals track different things.

Only these count towards the weekly leaderboard:

• Trivia.
• Votes on your quotes and memes.

These count towards your all-time total only:

• Rank-up bonuses.
• Profile rewards.
• Invite rewards.

So your all-time total can be much higher than your weekly score. That's completely normal.

The weekly leaderboard resets every Monday at midnight Indian Standard Time (IST).

You can check three things on the leaderboard: this week's live standings, last week's final standings and the latest corridor points activity.

Clicking an activity entry opens the thing that earned those points, such as a trivia question or a quote or meme.

For starters, they decide your position on the weekly leaderboard. Finish a week as the top corridor points earner and you get the Elite Hallmate title for the following week.

There is also an XP bonus attached to the weekly kinds of corridor points. Every corridor point earned from trivia or votes gives you another 5 XP.

Yes. Downvotes can reduce the points on your quotes and memes, even pushing their net score below zero.

Invite rewards can also be taken back if the invited friend's account is deleted or banned. Rank-up and profile rewards are all-time rewards, not weekly leaderboard points.

Completing your profile pays once for each of these six items:

• Display name.
• Real name.
• Photo.
• Bio.
• Profile quote.
• Linked Google account.

Each item gives you 20 corridor points and either 60 or 70 XP. Complete all six and you get 120 CP and 390 XP in total.

These rewards become available after you finish the three welcome cards: say hi, read the rules and read About.

Only when the chat is properly busy: at least 100 messages from at least three people in the last 30 minutes. After a question there's no new one for an hour, so there are 24 at most in a day.

Questions can be about anything: science, cricket, Bollywood, history, games, food, words and plenty more.

Type the answer as a normal message in the lobby. You don't need to reply to the question. Every answer is one to three words.

Capitals, accents, punctuation and a "the" in front don't matter, and neither does "it's" or "is it" around your answer. A long answer forgives a small typo, but numbers and anything under eight letters have to be exact.

Wrong guesses cost nothing, so keep trying.

Once in a while a question comes with options A to D. Type the letter or the option's words, but you only get one try: a wrong pick means you're out of that question. They're worth 5 points less.

With options, take off 5. Each question's card shows what it's worth. Trivia counts towards the weekly leaderboard, and every point is worth 5 XP as well.

A question lasts an hour. After that it expires, and the Hall Monitor replies with the answer and what it would have paid.

Every member can create one invite link, with the Invite button at the top of every page. You choose the name at the end of the link.

It follows this format:

sitcc.org/invite/your-name

Your chosen name must be between 3 and 32 characters and can contain letters, numbers and dashes.

You can choose one of three expiry options:

• 7 days: The default option.
• 30 days: A longer window to share your link.
• Never expires: Your link stays active until you change it.

While your link is active, nobody else can claim its name. Once it expires, the name becomes available for anyone to use.

You get 150 XP and 30 corridor points for every friend who signs up through your link and says hi in the lobby.

The corridor points are added to your all-time total only, not your weekly leaderboard score.

The rewards are taken back. You lose the 150 XP and 30 corridor points they earned you, and they stop counting on the Invites leaderboard.

The Invites leaderboard shows how many friends each member has brought in. The Corridor Council can see who invited whom, but other members only see the counts.

There are six notification types, each with its own on/off switch:

• All chats: Every lobby message, delivered in one notification that keeps updating.
• @mentions and replies: When someone mentions you or replies to you.
• @everyone: When an @everyone announcement is sent.
• Activity: New quotes and memes, plus comments on your memes.
• Official updates: Notices from the club.
• Leaderboard and rewards: Finishing the week at #1, changes in the weekly top 10 and dropping out of it.

All six notification types are switched on by default.

However, All chats arrives quietly by default. The other five make a sound.

Every notification type also has its own sound switch, so you can decide which ones should make noise.

That's intentional. Nothing pops up while you're actively using the club.

When you're active on one device, your other devices stay quiet too. You won't have your phone buzzing about a conversation you're already reading on your laptop.

You turn them on separately on each device, and then the switches and sounds you pick apply to all of them.

On an iPhone, notifications only work when you've installed the club as an app, using iOS 16.4 or later. You can manage the notification switches and sounds under Settings.

You can sign up in either of two ways:

• Username and password: Choose your own username and password. No email address or phone number is needed.
• Google: Sign in with your Google account, then choose a username. You can also add a display name if you like.

Your username is what other members use to mention you in the lobby.

Your first username change is free. After that, you can change it once every seven days. Old mentions of you will follow your new username.

You can also link a Google account to an existing username account, or add a password to a Google account. Both options are under Settings → Security.

Linking Google is the safest option because there is no email-based password reset. If you forget your password, the Founder can give you a temporary one.

Your display name is visible to everyone. Your real name is only visible to signed-in members, on your profile.

Your bio is also shown on your profile. Your username is used for @mentions.

Yes. Logged-out visitors can browse most of the club, including the lobby, leaderboard, quotes and memes, notices, level logs and profiles.

They cannot see real names or use the bunk calculator. They also cannot post, react or vote. Search engines are told not to index the site.

Yes. Only you can see your subjects and attendance in the bunk calculator.

Other members and logged-out visitors cannot view your attendance records.

Pictures are shrunk on your phone first. Before anyone else can see them, an AI filter checks the picture.

Anything adult, explicit or gory is blocked and never stored. This filter is there to keep the club clean, so a picture that gets flagged cannot be uploaded.

Pictures are kept on free image hosting services. These services make the pictures public to anyone who has the exact image link.

That means a picture is not private just because it was shared inside the club. Avoid uploading anything you would not want someone with its direct link to see.

You can edit your own lobby messages at any time. Edited messages show an (edited) label.

Quotes and meme captions can only be fixed during their first 15 minutes. The Corridor Council keeps a log of edits and deletions, so deleting something does not hide it from moderators.

You can delete your account from Settings, at the very bottom of the page.

Your lobby messages stay in place under a name in the format DeletedHallmate[your name]. Your profile, photo, real name, bio and bunk calculator are wiped, and your old username becomes available for someone else.

The Founder cannot delete their account.

A ban works similarly to account deletion. Your messages remain under a name in the format BannedHallmate[name], while your account information is removed as described in the account deletion process.

The login that was banned, along with its linked Google account, is blocked from coming back.

The Hall Monitor can automatically give you a 10-minute timeout if you:

• Send 15 messages within 20 seconds.
• Send the same message 10 times within 10 minutes.

A timeout means you can still look around and vote, but you cannot send messages, react or post quotes and memes. A countdown replaces your message box until the timeout ends.

More than 10 pings in five minutes can trigger moderation.

If you've sent nothing but pings, you get a 10-minute timeout straight away. Otherwise, the Hall Monitor warns you first. Three more pings within the next 30 minutes result in a 10-minute timeout, and receiving a third warning in one day results in a five-hour timeout.

Yes. The Founder and Corridor Council can manually time out anyone for anything from a minute to 30 days. They can also lift an active timeout early, which wipes the slate clean, or ban someone. Every action comes with a reason.

The Hall Monitor announces timeouts, lifted timeouts and bans in the lobby. Staff cannot be timed out or banned.

The picture filter also blocks adult, explicit and gory images before they are stored. For the complete list of expectations, see the club-rules page.

Because the best conversations happen in the corridors: the five minutes between classes, the walk to the lab, the wait outside a locked room. The club is where those conversations carry on after the bell. See About the club for the whole story.

No. It's a student-made parody club, not an official college organisation. Check the About page for the full note.

Only signed-in members can see it on your profile. Logged-out visitors cannot see real names.

Yes. Go to Settings → Security to add a password to your Google account. You can also link Google to an existing username account.

You may have sent it within 45 seconds of your last eligible message, repeated something too similar to your own recent message, or exceeded the ping limit. See XP and levels above for the full rules.

When the lobby is busy, the Hall Monitor asks a question at most once an hour, and the first right answer typed in the chat wins its corridor points. See Trivia above for the details.

When trivia replaced the AI judge in November 2026, everyone's corridor points started again from zero, so the race is fair for everyone. XP, levels and ranks stayed as they were.

The weekly board only counts trivia and votes. Rank-ups, profile rewards and invites add to your all-time total instead.

It's a special title awarded to whoever earns the most corridor points during the previous week. You hold it for the following week.

You can edit your own lobby messages whenever you like. Quotes and meme captions can be fixed within their first 15 minutes, but the Corridor Council keeps a log of edits and deletions.

The AI filter may have flagged it as adult, explicit or gory. Blocked pictures are not stored, and the filter checks pictures before other members can see them.

No. Your subjects and attendance are private to you. Other members and logged-out visitors cannot see them.

You can browse the club and vote, but you cannot send messages, react or post quotes or memes until the timer ends. Your message box will show a countdown.

On Chrome, Edge or Android, open the website and use the install option to add it to your device. On iPhone, use Share → Add to Home Screen. It's the live website in its own app window, so it stays up to date.

Open Settings and switch off All chats, or turn off its sound. Those switches are saved to your account, so the change applies on every device.

Your messages stay in the lobby under a DeletedHallmate name. Your profile details and bunk calculator are wiped. See Accounts & privacy above for the full explanation.

You earn rewards when someone signs up through your invite link and says hi in the lobby. If their account is later deleted or banned, those rewards are taken back. See Invites above for details.

Pictures are hosted on free image hosting services and can be viewed by anyone who has the exact link. Don't upload anything you want to keep private.

Yes. Chat in whichever language feels natural. Trivia answers are checked in English, though.