Community Guidelines

GameDay Pics is a public feed where fans share photos they took on a college football gameday. Your tailgate, your seats, your section, your road trip.

Post your own photos. Keep it the kind of thing you would show a stranger in the row behind you. Everything below is the longer version of those two sentences, and it is what you agree to when you tick the box before submitting.

What belongs here

• Stadium shots. The field, the student section, the band, the scoreboard, the walk in.
• Tailgates. The setup, the grill, the flags, the spread, your group.
• Watch parties. Living rooms, bars, dorms, deployments, wherever you found the game.
• Signs, mascots, traditions and gear.
• Photos you took yourself. Your own means you took it. A screenshot of somebody else’s photo is not yours, and neither is a picture off a website, a still off a broadcast or a photo a friend sent you.
• Captions that add something. Where you were, who you were with, what happened.

Stickers and emoji you add become part of the photo you post, so every rule below covers them too.

What is not allowed

This is the line, and this is an all ages app. If a photo or a caption does any of the following it does not go up, and it comes down if it is already up.

• Nudity or sexual content. That includes framing a person sexually when they did not sign up to be photographed that way.
• Anything that sexualizes a child, in any form, for any reason. There is no grey area in this rule and no context that changes it.
• Harassment or targeting a person. No pile-ons, no photos taken to humiliate somebody, no captions that point other fans at an individual, whether they are a fan, a player, a coach or an official.
• Publishing another person’s private information. Home addresses, phone numbers, workplaces, license plates, a ticket with a name on it.
• Hate speech and slurs. Content that attacks people over race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation. Talking trash about a rival is part of the sport. This is not that.
• Violence and gore. Fights, injuries posted for shock, blood, weapons aimed at people. A big hit on the field is football. A brawl in the concourse is not going up.
• Illegal activity. A crime in progress, ticket fraud, trespassing, vandalism, anything you were not allowed to bring into the stadium.
• Drug use, and alcohol anywhere near somebody underage. Beers at a tailgate are part of the day. A minor holding one is not, and neither is drug use.
• Spam and advertising. Repeat posts, links, promo codes, merch, ticket resale, fundraising, anything posted to sell rather than to share.
• Impersonation. Do not present yourself as another fan, a player, a coach, a school, a media outlet or GameDay Live.
• Other people’s images. Broadcast screenshots, press and wire photos, images pulled off social media and AI-generated images passed off as a photo you took.
• Photos of children who are not yours.
• Anything you do not hold the right to share. If you are unsure whether it is yours to post, it is not.

Photographing other people

A crowd at a public game is one thing. A close-up of one stranger is another. Nobody expects to be alone in a stadium, and a wide shot of your section is the whole point of GameDay Pics. Where a single identifiable person is the subject of your photo, the rules tighten.

• Wide crowd shots at a public event are fine. Nobody in them is the subject.
• If one identifiable person is the subject, get their okay before you post. Ask. It takes five seconds and most people say yes.
• If that person is a child, you need a parent or guardian to agree. Your own kids and your own group, yes. Somebody else’s child, no.
• Never post a photo of a person who asked you not to.
• Do not post people in moments they would not want public. Medical situations, distress, anything in a restroom, a locker room or a changing area.
• Do not post a photo of a person as a way of getting at them. That is harassment no matter how ordinary the picture looks.

If somebody asks us to take down a photo they are in, we take it down.

Children are where we stop, not where we guess. If a person in a photo may be a child and it is not clear that a parent or guardian agreed to it being public, the photo does not go live. It is held and routed to a person at GameDay Edge, LLC for a decision. Nobody reviewing photos has the option to wave that through, and no amount of "it is just a crowd shot" changes it.

Words count too

Every rule above covers what you write, not only what you photograph. A clean photo with a slur in the caption is a rule break, and so is a handle or a crew name that would never survive as a caption.

• Photo captions and team tags.
• Your handle and display name.
• Crew names, crew taglines and anything else you type that other fans can read.

Handles, crew names and taglines are checked against a blocked-word list the moment you save them, and the save is refused outright. Captions have no automated filter, so a person reads the caption together with the photo. Either way we can change or remove a handle, a crew name or a caption after the fact.

Avatars and crew artwork

• No official school logos, wordmarks or trademarks. Not even your own school. We do not hold those rights and neither do you.
• No Greek letters, fraternity or sorority crests, or organization insignia.
• No photo of somebody else as your avatar, and no photo of a child who is not yours.
• No art, illustration or photography you did not make and do not have permission to use.
• Nothing that would break the rules above if it were a photo. An avatar is smaller. The line is the same.

How review works

Stated plainly, because the honest version is more useful to you than a tidy one. Every photo is reviewed before it appears in GameDay Pics.

A photo posted from the app goes through two passes. First an automated check reads the picture and looks for sexual content, self-harm and violence. If it trips, the photo is rejected there and then and never posts, and you find that out on the spot. Then a person on our team looks at it. Nothing reaches the feed until they approve it, because software cannot tell a funny sign from a cruel one.

A photo submitted on the website skips the automated pass and goes straight to the person. Either way a human decides, and until they do your photo is pending. Pending is not rejected. If the automated check cannot run at all, your photo waits for the person rather than posting unchecked.

GameDay Pics photos

Not public until a person at GameDay Edge, LLC approves them. On a submission from the app an automated screen runs first and can reject before any person sees it.

Avatars and crew art

These go through the automated screen instead of a queue. A flag rejects the image and the file is deleted, so nothing is published. A clean result goes live immediately. If the screen cannot run, the image waits for a person.

Captions, handles and crew names

Handles, crew names and taglines are refused at save time if they hit the blocked-word list. Nothing else about your text is screened automatically. A caption is read with its photo.

Anything already live

Can be taken down later. Approval is not permanent, and a photo that passed review can still come down when somebody reports it or we spot it ourselves.

We do not publish how long review takes. People do this work, and a Saturday with a full slate is a different day from a Tuesday.

Reporting a photo, and blocking someone

If a photo breaks these rules, report it. In the app, open the photo options and tap Report Photo. Pick the closest reason, add anything that helps, and it goes to the same people who review submissions.

• Spam.
• Nudity or sexual content.
• Violence or graphic content.
• Harassment or hate.
• Not my photo. Use this for impersonation, for a copyright claim or for a photo of you that you did not agree to.
• Other, with a note about what is wrong.

You can also block whoever posted it. Same menu, Block This User. Their photos stop showing up in your feed. A block is yours alone: it tells them nothing, and it is not a report. You can let someone back in from Settings, under Blocked User Pics.

Reporting and blocking are different tools. Report a photo that breaks a rule. Block a person you would rather not see. You can do both, and if somebody is breaking the rules please do report as well as block, because a block is invisible to us.

On the website there is no report button yet. Email [email protected] instead and say which photo.

If a photo comes down

• A photo that fails the automated check never posts, and you find out on the spot.
• A photo taken down after it went live comes out of the feed. Ask us to remove a photo of yours and we delete the file too.
• The app does not tell you when a photo comes down. If a photo of yours is gone and you want to know why, write to us and ask.
• Taking a photo down is not a strike. There is no counter running against you.

What we do not do is publish a set number of chances. Context matters, and a careless caption is not the same as a photo of a crime. A serious break is enough on its own, and anything involving a child, a real threat to a person or sexual content sits in that category. Keep breaking these rules and you can lose access to GameDay Live, as the Terms of Use set out.

If we remove something of yours and you think we read it wrong, tell us. We do not have a formal appeals process. We would rather say that than pretend otherwise.

Taking your own photo down

Ask us and we will remove it. There is no self-service delete. Email [email protected] with the subject line Image Removal Request and tell us which photo. The caption, or the team, or roughly when you posted it, is enough for us to find it.

If you are in a photo somebody else posted and you want it gone, report it as "not my photo" or use the same address. You do not have to explain why. Deleting your account does not take your photos down, which the Photo Submission Terms explain.

When these rules change

These rules and the Photo Submission Terms carry one version number between them. When it changes, the app asks you to agree again before your next post. That is how you know something moved.