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SB Nation is a network of communities where sports fans from all backgrounds gather to share their passion for the teams they love. We strive to create a fun and welcoming place for everyone to come fan with us. These guidelines help ensure that happens across SB Nation’s communities. Here’s the short version:
The rules below extend to our SB Nation communities everywhere: in our comments, on social media, and in real life.
We do not allow any of the following:
Anyone who doesn’t follow these rules when engaging in our communities will at best be removed from the conversation, and at worst will end up banned from that community. These decisions will be made at the discretion of our community managers and other SB Nation personnel. Community managers and moderators have final say on interpretation of violating our community guidelines, and on all decisions resulting in a warning, suspension, and/or ban.
If you see any of these things happening in our communities, please flag it and it will be reviewed. If you see it happening on social media or elsewhere, flag it to the community manager or team brand managers, who should be listed on our masthead. You can also reach out via our contact form.
We may provide opportunities for community members to post content to SBNation.com or our community sites. If you choose to engage with these features, it’s important that you post only content that you created originally, own, or have the rights to use and share publicly. At SB Nation, we respect the intellectual property rights of others and expect the same from our users. It’s a violation of our terms of service and these community guidelines to post content that infringes on the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others, and users who do so will have their content removed and may be banned.
If you’re a copyright owner and believe that content posted on one of our SB Nation sites violates your intellectual property rights, you can send us a takedown notice following the instructions below. In accordance with the requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), we’ll review each notice, and if it meets the statutory requirements, we’ll remove the identified content from our site and notify the person who posted that content.
Notice instructions:
Please send your notice by email to: dmca@sbnation.com
To comply with the law, your notice must contain ALL of the following information:
We will forward your notice to the person who posted the content you allege infringes on your intellectual property rights. In accordance with the DMCA, they have the right to submit a counter-notice. If we receive a counter-notice, we’ll forward it to you. You’ll have 14 days to let us know if you’ve filed an action seeking a court order to restrain the allegedly infringing activity otherwise we’ll reinstate the content on our site.