Community Guidelines

Last updated: May 2025  ·  Applies to all users

Prova exists to connect the sports world — professionals building careers, organisations finding talent, coaches sharing knowledge, fans following the people they admire. To keep that ecosystem credible and worthwhile, everyone who uses Prova must follow these guidelines.

These are not bureaucratic rules. They are the standards that make Prova worth being part of. Please read them and take them seriously.

The One Rule That Covers Everything

If your content, conduct, or claims meet those three standards, you will never have a problem on Prova. Everything below is an elaboration of that single rule.

What Prova Is For

Prova is a professional network for the sports ecosystem. It is for:

• Sharing genuine career updates, professional insights, and sports-related content.
• Connecting with other professionals, discovering talent, and finding opportunities.
• Building a credible professional profile that accurately represents who you are.
• Discussing the sports world with knowledge and respect.
• Posting and applying for legitimate professional opportunities.

Credential Standards — No Exceptions

Prova’s value depends entirely on the authenticity of its members. Every credential, career claim, and professional achievement you post must be accurate and verifiable.

Content Rules

All posts on Prova must be tagged with at least one sport. This is not optional — it is how Prova’s feed works, and how we keep content relevant to the communities that need it.

What is welcome:

• Career updates, achievements, and milestones — yours or others’.
• Professional insights, training tips, coaching philosophy.
• Industry news, match analysis, and sports journalism.
• Opportunities, collaboration requests, and talent searches.
• Authentic behind-the-scenes content from the sports world.
• Celebration, congratulation, and genuine community support.

What is not permitted:

• Posts with no meaningful connection to sport.
• Political content where sport is not the primary subject.
• Religious content used for proselytising or debate (sport-related cultural content is fine).
• Hate speech, discrimination, or content that attacks individuals based on race, gender, nationality, religion, disability, or sexual orientation.
• Harassment, bullying, or targeted abuse of any individual.
• Graphic violence, nudity, or sexually explicit content.
• Content that glorifies self-harm or encourages dangerous behaviour.
• Spam, repetitive posts, automated posting, or unsolicited commercial promotion.
• Content that infringes copyright — including unlicensed match footage, broadcast clips, or music.
• Misinformation presented as fact, including fabricated transfer rumours, false injury reports, or made-up quotes attributed to real people.

Professional Conduct in Messages and Connections

Direct messages on Prova are for professional connection — networking, discussing opportunities, collaboration, and genuine professional conversation.

• Do not send unsolicited sales pitches, spam, or mass messages.
• Do not send threatening, harassing, or inappropriate messages.
• Do not use messages to request personal financial information.
• If someone declines a connection request or does not respond to messages, respect that decision. Repeated unwanted contact is harassment.

Opportunities Board Standards

The Opportunity Board is one of Prova’s most important features. To protect its integrity:

• All opportunities must be genuine and accurately described.
• Compensation details, if included, must be honest.
• Do not post speculative opportunities (“I might hire someone in the future”).
• Do not post opportunities designed to collect CVs or data without genuine intent to hire.
• Respond to applicants. Ghosting applicants is not prohibited, but it reflects poorly and may result in your posting privileges being reviewed.

Reporting Content

Every post, profile, and message has a report option. Use it if you see something that violates these guidelines. Reports are reviewed by the Prova moderation team.

Do not misuse the report system to target users you have a personal dispute with. Coordinated mass-reporting campaigns are a violation in themselves.

Posts that receive 3 or more reports are automatically hidden pending moderation review. This is an automated safety measure, not a finding of wrongdoing. If your content was hidden and you believe it should not have been, contact us via the appeal process.

Enforcement

When we find content or behaviour that violates these guidelines, we take proportionate action:

• Content removal — The post or comment is removed. You are notified.
• Warning — For first-time, minor violations. The issue is documented.
• Temporary suspension — For repeated violations or serious single incidents. Duration varies by severity.
• Permanent ban — For severe violations (credential fraud, harassment campaigns, illegal content, repeated serious offences). No restoration.
• Reporting to authorities — Where content constitutes a criminal offence under applicable law, we will report it to the appropriate authorities.

Circumventing a suspension or ban by creating a new account is itself a serious violation that will result in permanent removal.

Appeals

If you believe your content was removed or your account was actioned in error, you can appeal. Email us at moderation@prova.sport with your username and a clear explanation of why you believe the action was incorrect. We will review and respond within 5 business days.

Appeals are reviewed by a member of the team who was not involved in the original decision. Our decisions on appeal are final.

A Word on Why These Rules Exist

Prova was built because the sports world deserves a professional network that takes it seriously. Real athletes, real coaches, real credentials, real opportunities — that is the promise.

Every fabricated credential, every piece of harassment, every low-quality post makes that promise harder to keep. The rules above are not obstacles to your experience on Prova — they are what makes Prova worth using.

Questions about these guidelines? Contact us at community@prova.sport.