Community Guidelines

These guidelines apply to every verified former player who contributes to CFA. Reading the site is open to anyone; contributing is restricted to verified former D1 players, and contributing means living by what’s below.

Write from your own experience as a former player. Your reviews and takes should reflect what you actually lived — not secondhand rumor, not someone else’s story.

The operative principle is simple: don’t be a dickhead. Be honest, be direct, criticize hard when criticism is earned — that is the entire point of this platform. Honest negative reviews don’t get buried here. But there’s a line between an unsparing account of your experience and gratuitous abuse, and you know where it is.

Criticism of a program, a staff, or how you were treated is fair game — including when it names people and when it’s uncomfortable for the program. What doesn’t belong:

• Gratuitous personal attacks that aren’t about the program or your experience.
• Lies, fabricated claims, or anything you didn’t actually experience.
• Harassment, threats, or content that exists only to demean.

Keep it anchored to the experience and you’ll be fine. The bar is honesty, not politeness.

Reviewing under a pseudonym is allowed and expected — most contributors appear as Player ###### rather than their real name. The same standards apply either way. Anonymity protects you from the public; it doesn’t exempt you from these guidelines.

Right now there is one moderator: me, Mason. There is no public flagging or reporting system on Day 1 — I’m the only person reviewing what gets posted. I have full autonomy to remove a review, or remove a user, when these guidelines are broken.

When I remove a review, I’ll explain why publicly. Pulling content off a platform built on honest player voice is exactly the kind of decision that should be done in the open, not quietly — so I’ll own it when I do it.