Community Guidelines
Last updated: April 2026
Fish Tally is a friendly place for anglers to share their catches, swap stories, and celebrate each other’s wins. These guidelines explain — in plain English — what we expect from everyone in the community.
1. Be Respectful
Treat other anglers the way you’d want to be treated. Friendly competition and good-natured ribbing are welcome; bullying, harassment, slurs, and personal attacks are not.
2. Keep Photos Family-Friendly
Fish Tally is open to all ages. Swimwear in a fishing context — boardshorts, bikinis, rashies — is fine. Anything more revealing, sexually suggestive, or graphic is not allowed. Don’t post photos of other people without their permission.
3. Be Honest About Your Catches
Rankings only mean something if everyone plays fair. Don’t post catches that aren’t yours, don’t exaggerate sizes, and don’t repost old catches with new dates. We may remove catches and reset rankings if we see clear evidence of cheating.
4. No Spam, Scams, or Self-Promotion
Don’t use Fish Tally to sell things, drive traffic to other apps, push affiliate links, or post the same comment over and over. Genuine recommendations to mates (“I love that lure too!”) are fine — broadcast advertising is not.
5. Look After Fish and the Environment
We love fishing, and that means looking after the resource. Don’t post photos that glorify mistreatment of fish, illegal practices, or poached species. Releasing fish carefully, observing bag limits, and respecting protected zones are part of being a responsible angler.
6. No Illegal Content
Don’t post anything that breaks the law in your country: drug references, threats of violence, content involving minors in any unsafe way, hate speech, or content that infringes someone else’s copyright.
7. Use Real Information
One person, one account. Don’t impersonate other people. Use a username and profile photo that genuinely represent you. If you want to be private, you can hide your real name — but don’t pretend to be someone else.
8. Report, Don’t Retaliate
If you see something that breaks these guidelines, use the report button (the three dots on any post or the flag icon next to any comment). Don’t fight back in the comments — let us handle it. Reports are reviewed individually; if multiple people report the same content, we look at it sooner.
9. Privacy of Others
Don’t share other people’s personal information without consent — phone numbers, home addresses, or screenshots of private messages all count. Specific fishing spots can be sensitive too: respect requests from friends to keep their honey-holes off the public feed.
10. What Happens If You Break the Rules
We try to keep moderation fair and proportional. Most first-time issues result in the offending content being removed and a warning. Repeated or serious breaches can lead to a temporary suspension or, in the worst cases, a permanent ban. You’ll always be told what was decided and why, and you can appeal any decision from Settings → Request a Review.
11. Decisions and Appeals
A real human reviews every suspension and ban — never an automated system on its own. Severe safety reports (including child exploitation, violent extremism, and self-harm) are reviewed within 24 hours; other reports are reviewed within 7 business days. Appeals are also reviewed by a person, normally within 7 business days. If your appeal is approved, your account is reinstated and you’ll be told why.
12. Thanks
Most of our community is great — these guidelines exist for the small minority who aren’t. Thanks for fishing well, posting well, and helping make Fish Tally a place anglers actually want to come back to.