Fan’s Bill of Rights

Look, we admit it.  We’re totally ripping this idea off.  The Big Lead, one of our favorite blogs and whose status we’d love to achieve, created a brilliant piece of work in its “Commenters’ Bill of Rights.”  It has become increasingly clear that we needed to incorporate such terms.  With all apologies to TBL, you guys are fantastic, but we borrowed your rules. Please don’t hurt us.

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Sports Collision aims to insure domestic tranquility for its fans and commenters. We wish to provide for the common defense of one’s team and personal opinions in every comment section. Above all, we pledge to promote the general welfare of our readers, even when your comment is really funny.

The Right To Free Speech: Sports Collision shall make no law respecting an establishment of fanhood, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. We encourage readers to discuss and debate sports, entertainment, politics and whatever else finds its way onto these pages.

The Right To Differing Opinions: Commenters have the right to disagree, but keep it classy. Personal attacks on other commenters will not be tolerated. The busting of chops is acceptable and in some instances, encouraged, but keep it friendly.

The Right To Call Out The Bloggers: We write, therefore, we write stupid things. No one is perfect, especially us. We have biases, can’t spell and partake in a litany of other mistakes on a daily basis. Feel free to let us know when we say something stupid. We can handle it. We also like beer.  So if you see us out, buy us one.  Lord knows Google Ads aren’t paying for our consumption.

The Right To Remain Anonymous: When you are here – you are your commenter name. The information you decide to give about your life away from the keyboard is up to you and you alone. Comments revealing personal information about others will be deleted.

The Right To Post Links: Linkage is a powerful and important part of what we do, but we’ll never be able to get everything. You are welcome to post links, but remember, “NSFW” tags save jobs. If Akismet, our Director of Homeland Security, thinks you’re spam, please email hello@sportscollision.com and we’ll see what we can do.  If you are actually SPAM: Suck Eggs.

The Right To Vote On Trivial Matters: This right shall not be denied or abridged by anyone on account of state of residence, team affiliation or place of education.

The Right To Click Ads: Sports Collision shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and… Oh, just click on the banner ads so we don’t have to knock down your door.

The Right To Have Your Comment Deleted: The good Lord giveth, and we will sure as hell taketh it away.  Sports Collision reserves the right to delete any comment that is contradictory to the spirit of the Fan’s Bill of Rights. Again, we want to promote a friendly environment here and we thank you for your help in accomplishing that.

The Right To Be Banned: If you consistently break the unwritten rules of the site and common decency, the ban-hammer will toll for thee.

The commentators bill of rights is subject to the terms of use and the privacy policy.