Guidelines
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What is SportsFilter?
- SportsFilter is a community weblog where members contribute and discuss sports related links. Take the time to put thought and substance into your posts and comments. Help SportsFilter maintain its reputation as a thoughtful community with discussion a cut above the typical sports site.
- SportsFilter is not the place to get your daily, mundane sporting news. SportsFilter was not designed to replace ESPN or Yahoo! Sports. SportsFilter was created to find, or filter, the best sports related sites and writing on the internet and share them with the community.
- SportsFilter is not an open discussion board. We require a quality link at the top of your post. Linking to your team's home page because you'd like to discuss their outlook for the current season does not meet that criterion.
- SportsFilter is not the place to promote your site. Find interesting links, post valuable commentary, become a part of the community and members will view your profile where you can link to your site or project.
- SportsFilter is not a fan board. If your idea of discussion is "yankees suck, red sox rule," SportsFilter is not for you. Fandom is encouraged (we're all fans here), but this is not a place to see who can yell go birds!!1! louder and more often than anyone else.
What makes a good front page post (FPP)?
- A good FPP requires a sports related link that has not been seen by most people, is interesting in content, and will foster discussion among the community.
- A good FPP is a link with a brief description of what the link is about, and that's it. Don't editorialize on the front page. Biased posts make for biased discussions. Personal opinion belongs inside the thread.
- Unless there's no other option, don't link to an ESPN, Yahoo! Sports, or Associated Press article. While not forbidden, when linking to these or similar sites the quality of the link must be very high.
- Keep the spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes to a minimum. Over use of caps, exclamation points, italics, bold, and aol-speak are discouraged. Take pride in what you are writing.
- While there are no hard and fast rules about cursing in threads, please keep the front page clean from words that may offend people visiting SportsFilter for the first time.
- If you don't have a link to a story, but you still have something to say, why don't you submit a column? We're always looking for new columnists.
What makes a good thread comment?
- A good comment adds something valuable to the discussion and stays on topic. SportsFilter is not the site for stream of thought garbage and unsupportable conjecture.
- No personal attacks. A good comment is respectful of members and their opinions. Address the argument, not the person making it.
- The use of racist, sexist, or derogatory terms towards SportsFilter members or in the discussion of links is strictly forbidden.
- Don't sign off at the end of your posts. Your username appears at the bottom of your comment, and yelling the name of your team at random only makes you sound like a Saturday Night Live character.
- And (again) keep the spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes to a minimum. Over use of caps, exclamation points, italics, bold, and aol-speak are discouraged. Take pride in what you are writing. The world is paying attention.
What if I don't Follow these Guidelines?
If you fail to follow these guidelines, we may delete your posts or comments. Continued or egregious violations will result in the banning of your SportsFilter account.
