At FanHome, we take great pride in building and maintaining a community where diverse, intelligent and respectful sports discussion between members can thrive. The following Community Standards outline both generally and specifically indicates what we feel are appropriate guidelines to preserve the highest quality online experience. We encourage you to read our Community Standards before joining our site. Please feel free to refer to them at a later date from the link to the "Terms of Use" at the bottom of every page. Thanks for doing your part in helping to keep FanHome a great place ‘where fans connect.'
Our General Principles:
We expect that all members of FanHome will behave in a way that’s conductive to the diversity, intelligence and respectfulness of the community. Each of these three general principles is fundamental to the quality of our site.
Diversity – We’re a community of thousands of fans of different teams, from different backgrounds and with different perspectives on sports and life. This includes fans of different ages, sexes, religions and beliefs. At all times, we expect our members to respect that.
Intelligence – We’re a community with quality standards and we expect our members to make a sincere effort to contribute their thoughts on interesting subjects in a meaningful and respectful manner. Posting messages and otherwise interacting on FanHome is completely optional; many members often prefer to just read what others have to say. But if you do post, we expect that you’ll be respectful of the time of others by posting meaningfully.
Respectfulness – We require our members to show respect for others. Respecting their person, their teams, their time and their opinions – even if you disagree with them. Respect also includes respecting the right of FanHome administrators and moderators to make judgements and enforce these Community Standards.
Basic Guidelines:
The following six categories of online conduct are unacceptable at FanHome and constitute a violation of our Community Standards, which may result in warning, suspension or loss of membership. It's important to note that these guidelines are applicable everywhere on FanHome including within Chat and Private Messaging features:
Harassment… Harassment occurs when a member insults, attacks, and denigrates another member at any time. Even though we realize that sports discussions can get intense, we have zero tolerance for taking an argument about a sports topic to a personal level. For instance, the use of terms such as "idiot, moron, stupid" and other derogatory terms constitutes harassment. Harassment not only includes individuals but also can apply to insults against others teams, players and groups of FanHome members. Repeated critical, condescending and/or sarcastic posts toward a forums team and/or forum members can also constitute harassment.
Disruption…Posts that intend to disrupt the topic of conversation or steer the topic away from the focus of the forum and related news. Disruption can include harassment, multiple posting of the same post and posting completely off topic messages.
Vulgarity and Sexual Explicitness…As a community with a diverse variety of members and readers, we ask that our members to post without using vulgarity. Vulgarity not only includes vulgar language and pictures but also sexist, racist, anti-religious and homophobic language, which may offend other members. In addition, the "masking" of vulgarity by inserting * or another keystroke in place of one or more letters in a vulgar term is unacceptable in most cases. In addition, all uses of vulgarity are open to editing or deletion by moderators. We realize that there's a "gray area" of judgment with vulgarity but we ask that you'll respect others by avoiding vulgarity and our right to determine what constitutes it and take appropriate action.
Solicitation… Refrain from using FanHome’s forums or chat to advertise your site, items for sale, commercial services or website. You may attach a short link to your site within your profile or signature but if you would like more promotion, we have a great Affiliate network called FanHome.net that already includes hundreds of sports sites like yours. Click here or follow the link to FanHome.net from our front-page for more information.
Spamming…Spamming is the multiple posting of an identical or similar post on one or more of our Forums.
Copyrighted Material…You may post links to appropriate articles but posting articles from other sources in their entirety is a violation of our Community Standards. Use your best judgment, since you agree in the Terms of Use to be held legally responsible for your own posts on this system, but if you must repost quotes or sentences, you must credit the source.
Please bear in mind that these are only guidelines; there is always a "gray area" and we understand that. Use your best judgment. If you have any questions about our Community Standards as they apply to specific cases, you can always ask a Moderator. Note that if you would like to express a concern about the judgement and enforcement of Community Standards by any particular Moderator, please contact Administration privately.
Thanks for reading our Community Standards! Now, we invite you to join our community!
