Community Standards/Rules

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I loved posting on FanHome, but the site I've been posting at for the past four years has really started to lose it's FanHome feeling. I've taken to calling it what it is...Scout.com. Their business model is based on publishers offering premium content to subscribers to make their individual boards money.

FanHome was based on Intellgent Discussion, Diversity, Respect and of course with the many different team sites...Networking. It's time to get back to basics. That's what I'd like these boards to be based on. The old FanHome principle of Intelligence. Diversity. Respect. Networking. That's what worked and made OUR boards special. Let's take back OUR boards. We were and ARE all stakeholders in the success of this board.

The FanHome Community Standards

At HomeFan (FanHome2), 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 HomeFan (FanHome2) a great place ‘where fans connect.'

Our General Principles:

We expect that all members of HomeFan (FanHome2) 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 HomeFan (FanHome2) 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 HomeFan (FanHome2) administrators and moderators to make judgements and enforce these Community Standards.

Basic Guidelines:

The following categories of online conduct are unacceptable at HomeFan (FanHome2) 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 HomeFan (FanHome2) including within our Mailbox 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 HomeFan (FanHome2) 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.

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 Contact Us or 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 of thousands at HomeFan (FanHome2)!