Community Guidelines
As sports fans and athletes, we are all naturally part of a huge community. While our support differ from teams and cities from all over, we all enjoy the different experiences participating in sports offer i.e. competition, sportsmanship, teamwork, etc.
At Ballers List, we are happy to offer a platform for you to connect and participate in sports more efficiently. We understand competing at a high level could become heated, however we ask that you respect others at all times and abide by our guidelines.
Ballers List isn’t a place for explicit, abusive, harmful, hateful, or violent 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 guidelines below inform our team to remove or limit the distribution of the content shared in the app as well as the accounts that share it. These guidelines apply to all the content you create and share within Ballers List, such as your comments, posts, and direct messages.
We may take a number of steps, including issuing a warning, removing the content, or removing and/or banning the accounts responsible if you are in violation of these guidelines.
If you have questions, please contact [email protected].
Harassment & Bullying
We have zero tolerance for bullying of any kind
Don’t make personal attacks directed at other users
Don’t criticize other users via name-calling or profanity
If you try to get another user suspended by falsely reporting another user for violating these guidelines, we reserve the right to ban you
If someone blocks you, don’t try to contact them
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 aware of when you are talking in a private direct message, posting to your followers, or joining a public conversation. If you are joining a public conversation, be mindful of the topic being discussed
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
When sending direct messages, be respectful of the person you are messaging
Don’t send unsolicited messages in bulk
Don’t add other users to private group chats in bulk
Relevancy
Be aware of the specific topic at hand when commenting on the news, a game, or any other content shared to Ballers List
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 that community’s interests
Stay on topic within a community
Don’t join an opposing team’s community to troll, spam, or pick fights
If you want to start a new topic, please create a post. Be mindful that if your post violates our other guidelines, we may take action
Impersonation
Don’t intentionally misrepresent yourself by creating a profile pretending to be another user on the Ballers List 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 inappropriate, harmful, offensive, or lewd content
We prohibit accounts that promote or distribute pornographic content
Never post, save, or send nude or sexual content involving anyone—even of 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.