Community Guidelines

As sports fans, we are all naturally part of a huge community. While our fandoms differ from city to city and team to team, we all enjoy getting together to discuss our favorite teams, our starting fantasy lineups and really anything that gets us fired up to chat about the big plays, the locker room drama, and all the buzz that makes the sports world spin.

Bleacher Report is your go to spot for all things sports, where we keep the chatter focused on the game, not the noise. So, bring your A-game, keep it sports centered, and let’s make the conversation as thrilling as a last-second buzzer-beater. We encourage vibrant discussions and heated dialogues. After all, we at Bleacher Report are no different than you—we take sports very seriously. With that said, we ask that you respect others and abide by our guidelines.

Bleacher Report isn’t a place for explicit, abusive, harmful, hateful, violent, or disruptive content or behavior. We want our guidelines to be easy to follow and we’ll do our best to consistently and fairly enforce these guidelines.

Our playbook below helps our team keep the spotlight on what matters, sports! If your content or account strays from sports, we might bench it or show it the door. These rules apply to everything you post or comment on Bleacher Report. So, keep it clean, keep it fun, and most importantly, keep it about the game!

We may take a number of steps, including issuing a warning, suspension, removing the content, or removing and/or banning the accounts responsible if you are in violation of these guidelines.

Our Moderation team is here to make sure the conversation stays enjoyable and respectful for everyone. Keep in mind that what you post is visible to the community and recorded by our service providers for moderation, safety, and to help us improve your experience. By sharing your thoughts here, you're agreeing to these practices to keep the focus on what we all love, sports.

If you have questions, please contact support@bleacherreport.com.

Harassment & Bullying

• Bullying? It’s not in our playbook, zero tolerance here.
• Keep it clean: no personal attacks or cheap shots at other users.
• Trash talk is for the game, not for name calling or using foul language againstothers.
• Falsely flagging someone just to get them benched? That’s a straight red card, you could be banned.

Hateful Activities

• Don’t attack anyone based on race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, national origin or ancestry, religion or creed, sex, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, or citizenship.
• Don’t use slurs or negative stereotypes, caricatures, or generalizations.
• Don’t share false or misleading content about individuals or protected groups that promotes fear, hate or prejudice.
• Don’t deliberately spread false information that causes harm, such as denying the existence of tragic events.
• Don’t encourage or incite violence.

Spam & Solicitation

• Be mindful of your audience, whether you’re posting to your followers or joining a public conversation. When you’re part of a larger discussion, stay on topic and keep your contributions relevant.
  • Don’t disrupt public conversations by sharing repetitive and/or nonsensical comments or messages.
  • Don’t spam public conversations soliciting other users to do something for you, such as “firing” one of your comments or visiting a website that’s not relevant to the topic.
  • It’s okay to post to your followers asking for them to engage with a post or comment you’ve shared.

Relevancy

• Be aware of the specific topic at hand when commenting on the news, a game, or any other content shared to Bleacher Report.
  • Stay relevant to the topic you are choosing to comment upon. We reserve the right to take action against accounts attempting to divert a conversation.
  • Please be especially mindful of the topic when replying to another user’s comment.
• When creating posts intended for a specific community, be aware of thatcommunity’s interests.
  • Stay on topic within a community.
  • Don’t join an opposing team’s community to troll, spam, or pick fights.
• Got a new topic in mind? Feel free to start a post! Just remember, if your post breaks the rules, we might have to step in and take action.

Parody & Impersonation

• Parody accounts that creatively impersonate athletes, celebrities, and public figures, are allowed if your profile bio explicitly states, "fan account" or "parody account". Play it fair—avoid full impersonation. Aim for legendary but keep it genuine and respectful!
• Don’t intentionally misrepresent yourself by creating a profile pretending to be another user on the B/R app.
• Don’t create multiple profiles under the same or similar username to violate these guidelines.

Explicit Content

• Don’t use offensive and/or harmful language.
• Don’t share content that’s inappropriate, harmful, offensive, or lewd.
• Accounts that promote or distribute pornographic material are strictly prohibited.
• Never post, save, or send nude or sexual content involving anyone, even yourself.

Private Information

• We recommend that you protect your privacy and avoid sharing your own personal or sensitive information.
• Never share or leak the personal, sensitive, or confidential information about other users.