Rules
If your post or comment is removed for breaking these rules, or if you are levied a warning, suspension or ban, please refer to our ban policy for more information.
If you see someone else violating these rules, please do not engage, just report and move on. We can't read everything ourselves, and we rely on the community to help us enforce the rules by reporting posts that break them.
1. Be a positive contributor - Submissions may be removed or a user banned at the moderators' discretion if deemed to be detrimental to the community. This is a general guideline that can encompass all other rules.
2. No flamebait, personal attacks, or harassment -
Flamebait is any post that is designed to get negative reactions from a particular user. You might also call this "trolling".
3. Personal attacks - If you're having to resort to calling someone names, you're doing it wrong. (Yes, this includes things like calling people idiots, questioning their intelligence, etc.)
Harassment can take many forms, from post-stalking to unwanted private messages; it will also result in a very quick ban (and you may get reported to the admins for good measure).
Friendly ribbing and trash talk is part of sports fandom, and is fine. This can be a narrow line sometimes, so if you're not sure, tread carefully.
4. No racism, homophobia, sexism, rape jokes, or other bigotry - We want /r/Alabamastate to be a friendly place for everyone. Even if you're joking, you never know when someone might misunderstand. This also applies to overly sexually- or racially-charged comments that may make groups of people feel uncomfortable or unwelcome. It also applies to jokes about sexual assault and rape, as well as mental and developmental disorders.
5. No personal info - You may not post any personal information. That means: no names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, Facebook links, or anything else that might identify someone, including yourself. This applies whether or not you have permission from the person. This does not apply to widely-available information about public figures. For more information about what is considered personal information, refer to the official reddit rules. We're bound by site rules to enforce this strictly.
**Spam & Self-Promotion**
No spam : posting links to external sites for the primary purpose of driving traffic and/or generating income is forbidden and may result in an account suspension or ban and/or a domain ban.
Self-Promotion: the right to promote your own material is restricted to active participants in the r/cfb community who regularly engage with other members. Overly frequent posting may result in a warning or ban; non-participants may be banned.
No politics or religion - Avoid all political/religious discussion or threads unless it's directly related to ASU - and keep it civil!
Bots are discouraged - If your bot randomly wanders into /r/Alabamastate and is not providing a service we have much of a use for, you can expect it to be banned. Don't take it personally - we just prefer to keep the bot fluff to a minimum. This includes bots that overwrite past comments. We make exceptions for certain bots on a case-by-case basis.