Welcome to Playback! We are on a mission here at Playback to improve the sports watching experience through the power of community, and we are ecstatic that you have joined us on the journey. To achieve this goal, it’s important that all members of our community feel safe and supported. We have created the following guidelines to ensure everyone has the best possible experience, so please familiarize yourself with them as well as our terms of use. For creators, you can find our terms of use here.

Playback will review reports of violations to our guidelines which may result in issue of a warning, removal of content, suspension or termination of accounts/rooms responsible, and/or report to law enforcement. If you come across a user, message, or room that appears to break these guidelines, please report it to [email protected]

Show Kindness and Respect

• Do not harass others or organize, promote, or participate in harassment.
• Do not organize, promote, or participate in hate speech or hateful conduct. It’s unacceptable to attack a person or a community based on their race, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, age, disabilities, or any other protected classification.
• Do not make threats of violence or threaten to harm others. This includes indirect or suggestive threats, as well as sharing or threatening to share someone’s personally identifiable information (also known as doxxing).
• Do not use Playback for the organization, promotion, or support of violent extremism.
• Do not sexualize children in any way. You cannot share content or links which depict children in a pornographic, sexually suggestive, or violent manner, including illustrated or digitally altered pornography that depicts children.
• Do not share sexually explicit content of other people without their consent.
• Do not share content that glorifies or promotes suicide or self-harm.
  • Self-harm threats used as a form of emotional manipulation or coercion are also prohibited.
• Do not share real media depicting gore, excessive violence, or animal harm, especially with the intention to harass or shock others.
• Do not share content that violates anyone's intellectual property or other rights.

Have Integrity

• Do not share false or misleading information.
• Do not engage in activities intended to cause damage or gain unauthorized access to another user's account, network, or system.
• Do not distribute or provide access to content involving the hacking, cracking, or distribution of stolen goods, pirated content, or accounts.

Comply with Playback

• Do not use Playback to spam, manipulate engagement, or disrupt other people’s experience. This includes trying to to influence or disrupt conversations using bots, fake accounts, multiple accounts, or other automation. Purchasing or selling methods of artificially increasing membership, such as bot farming, is also prohibited.
• Do not organize, promote, or engage in any illegal or dangerous behavior, such as sexual solicitation, human trafficking, and selling or facilitating the sale of prohibited or potentially dangerous goods (firearms, ammunition, drugs, and controlled substances).