Content Standard
Chiefs Coalition Content Standards
Chiefs Coalition welcomes the submissions of all writers who have been approved to publish on the network. However, standard B/R protocol dictates that site administrators screen incoming articles for the following types of inadmissible content:
- Commercial Content is that which attempts to direct readers to external sites for commercial purposes.
- Examples of commercial content include referrals and links to external commercial sites (embedded or otherwise) in the headline, body or multimedia assets of a published article.
- Community Content is that which contains meta-discussion (“discussion about the discussion”) about Chiefs Coalition and/or its writer community. The B/R publishing platform is dedicated exclusively to the sharing of sports-related content with a worldwide audience, and community content does not qualify. Such content should be reserved for the Chiefs Coalition Community Forum.
- Examples of community content include compliments, criticisms, defenses, questions and suggestions about Chiefs Coalition and/or its writer community. These may all be posted in the Community Forum.
- Non-original Content is that which is not produced by its stated author.
- Examples of non-original content include newswire dispatches and plagiarized articles.
- Non-sports Content is that which isn’t directly relevant to the sports world.
- Examples of non-sports content include entertainment news and political commentary.
- Offensive Content is that which violates the standards outlined in Chiefs Coalition’s Terms of Use.
- Examples of offensive content include incitement to violence, insensitivity to tragedy, obscenity, pornography and vulgarity.
- Satirical Content is that which presents false information as if it were true.
- Examples of satirical content include The Onion-style fake news reports and fan fiction articles.
- Poorly Written Content is that which fails to meet Chiefs Coalition's editorial guidelines.
- Examples of poorly-written content include articles with frequent typographical, grammatical or stylistic errors and articles that fail to present ideas in clear and coherent language.
- Substandard Content is that which fails to meet journalistic standards.
- Examples of substandard content include unsubstantiated allegations; partial submissions, press releases; unsourced, fabricated or inaccurate reports/claims (including anything from unnamed sources); poems/lyrics; stream-of-consciousness rants and one- or two-sentence blurbs.
Submissions and blog feeds containing inadmissible content will be deleted in accordance with Chiefs Coalition’s Terms of Use. In certain cases, the publishing privileges of an author who violates B/R's Content Standards may be suspended or revoked.
