FAR Community Guidelines

FAR Community Guidelines

Last updated: 13 August 2026

FAR works because fans call it as they see it. These guidelines keep that honest and keep it safe. They form part of our Terms of Use, and breaking them has the consequences set out there and summarised below.

Criticise the call, not the person.

"That's never a penalty. VAR's asleep. Absolute shambles of a decision": perfect. That's what FAR is for.

"[Named referee] is corrupt and on the take": not on FAR. That's an accusation of fact about a real person, and unless you can prove it in court, it doesn't belong here. Referees get decisions wrong; say so, loudly. Claiming a named individual is cheating, bribed, or fixing matches is different, and we remove it.

Logging decisions

• Log real incidents from the match, as they happen or shortly after. A decision is a claim that something happened and an invitation for fans to vote. Treat it that way.
• Don't log joke decisions, duplicates of an existing decision, or incidents you invented. Quiet matches are fine; polluted records are not.
• Record the official outcome honestly when it's known. Grading everyone's votes depends on it.

Comments

• Disagree hard, keep it about the football.
• No abuse, hate, or harassment. Nothing that attacks people for who they are (race, religion, nationality, sex, sexuality, disability, or anything similar). Football has a discrimination problem; FAR won't add to it.
• No threats, no wishing harm on players, officials, or fans.
• No posting anyone's personal information, and no impersonating anyone.
• Comments are screened automatically for abusive language before they appear; a comment that fails is hidden.

Photos

• Only upload photos you took yourself, from the stands, the pub, wherever you watched. If you didn't take it, don't upload it. That includes screenshots and photos of TV broadcasts or streams, images from news sites, and other people's posts: uploading those can infringe someone's copyright, and you're responsible for what you post.
• No sexual, violent, or shocking imagery. Nothing involving children beyond incidental crowd shots.
• Photos are screened automatically before other users can see them: they must relate to football and contain nothing explicit. Photos that fail are deleted.

Voting and stats

• One person, one account, one vote per decision. Your "officials agree" percentage means something because everyone's does.
• No second accounts, vote trading, coordinated brigading, or bots. Vote manipulation is the fastest way to a permanent ban, because it breaks the thing everyone else is here for.

Keep it non-commercial

No advertising, affiliate links, betting tips, or self-promotion. FAR is fan opinion, not a billboard.

Reporting

If you see content that breaks these guidelines (or a decision that's simply wrong) report it in the app, or email marcus@marcusburnett.com for anything the report button doesn't cover (including anything you believe is illegal). Each account can report a given item once. We review reports without undue delay.

What happens when rules are broken

Depending on how serious it is, we may:

• 1. hide or remove the content;
• 2. restrict what your account can do (for example, posting but not voting);
• 3. suspend your account temporarily;
• 4. ban your account permanently.

We go straight to a permanent ban for the serious end: threats, hate, illegal content, anything endangering children, and vote fraud.

Appeals

Think we got it wrong? Email marcus@marcusburnett.com within 30 days of the action. A human reviews every appeal and you'll get an answer with the outcome.

Changes

We'll update these guidelines as FAR grows. Significant changes will be announced in the app, and the date at the top always shows the latest revision.