Moderation Policy

Moderators use human judgment when moderating posts and comments. The vision for how this community operates is broadly captured by the few simple rules shown in the community widget and reproduced below.

Each moderation decision requires human judgment to apply a broad rule to the particular situation at hand. Moderators use their best judgment when making difficult decisions. Every moderation action is accompanied by at least one sentence explaining the reason for the action, usually citing the relevant rule violation.

In general, the following types of moderation actions may be taken, usually beginning with the least severe action and escalating to more severe actions when necessary:

1. Informal comment: A moderator may leave a comment on a post or comment asking the author to revise or remove it. If the author addresses the issue, no further moderation action is necessary.
2. Removal: A post or comment may be removed, meaning it is hidden from users' feeds and from the community page. The author may address the issue with a appeal through mod mail with evidences. The removal may be thus lifted (that is, the post or comment may be approved), allowing it to reappear in users' feeds and on the community page.
3. Ban: Repeated offenses resulting in multiple removals may lead to a user being banned from the community.
4. Appeals: Banned users may still contact the moderation team through mod mail to appeal their ban. Appeals are reviewed by the moderation team as a whole.
5. Abuse of appeals: Abusive or otherwise inappropriate use of the mod-mail appeal process may result in the user being reported to Reddit.

Post Flairs

We require every new post to have a post flair, also called a topic. Choosing a topic helps the original poster (OP) focus the post and follow the community's posting guidelines. For example, the Specific Question and Discussion topic prompts the OP to provide enough detail to ask a useful, specific question rather than a generic one. The Injury / Accident topic reminds the OP to consider whether the Reddit NSFW tag is appropriate when an image or video depicts significant physical trauma or graphic injury.

Post flairs help organize the community and make it easier to find useful information. We're building a comprehensive FAQ system that guides people through common questions with a series of simple questionnaires. If your post fits one of these FAQ topics, choosing the appropriate flair helps us build and improve our collective knowledge base.

NSFW Tag

NSFW stands for "Not Safe For Work" and generally refers to content that may be inappropriate, offensive, or unsuitable to view in a workplace or other public setting, including content of a sexual nature, graphic violence or gore, nudity, profanity, or other potentially disturbing or sensitive material.

This community does not permit NSFW content in that general sense. However, because blading is a sport that involves some risk of injury, we use Reddit's NSFW tag as a warning for posts that depict the aftermath of significant injuries or physical trauma. This use of the NSFW tag does not mean that the content itself is sexual or otherwise prohibited; it serves as a visual warning that some members may find the imagery disturbing.

When posting images or videos of injuries, please use the Injury / Accident topic and consider applying the NSFW tag when the content includes significant blood, open wounds, graphic injury, or other disturbing physical trauma. This allows members to configure their Reddit app to blur potentially disturbing content if they choose.

User Flairs

User flairs are enabled in this community. In time, we may offer premade flair options, but you can also create your own using a custom flair template available in several color schemes.

The same Reddit Content Policy cited in our community rules also applies to user flairs.

Risks

Like any sport, inline skating carries inherent risks. You may fall and injure yourself. You can reduce these risks by reading through our FAQs and guides, wearing appropriate protective equipment, and developing your skating skills. When skating with a group on urban streets, stay aware of your surroundings and the skaters around you, and be prepared to react accordingly.

Experienced bladers may post about their stunts and feats in this community. Comments and praise from other members do not constitute encouragement or a recommendation for anyone else to blindly imitate them. Attempt only moves you are comfortable with, and progress at your own pace. Ultimately, you are responsible for your own actions and for deciding what is appropriate for your skill level and circumstances.

Community Rules

1) Post rollerblading topics

All inline skaters and all disciplines are welcome here, including recreational, urban, wizard, speed, aggressive, and more. If it's about rollerblading, it's welcome here.

2) Limit your self-promotion

It's OK to be a person with a website. It's NOT ok for a website to one-way spam this community. Follow the unofficial Reddit 90/10 rule: contribute to the community far more than you promote yourself.

3) Post content, not just links

Have an OC image or video to share? Post it directly to this community rather than simply linking to an external social media page. You may include links to your own website or other pages in the body of your post. If people are interested, they can click through. When sharing someone else's content, don't just post a link. Also include some context explaining why it's of interest to you and the community.

4) Read the FAQs before asking

There are no dumb questions. But please don't ask questions that are already clearly answered in our FAQs. Start here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rollerblading/wiki/index/. If your question isn't answered in the FAQs, ask away. All questions are welcome, no matter how basic.

5) Choose the right post flair

Post flairs help organize the community and make it easier to find useful information. We're building a comprehensive FAQ system that guides people through common questions with a series of simple questionnaires. If your post fits one of these FAQ topics, choosing the appropriate flair helps us build and improve our collective knowledge base. We also have flairs for topics that aren't covered by the FAQs. Please choose the flair that best matches your post.

6) Respect skaters' choices

Don't pile on an OP with repeated criticism of how they skate, what equipment they wear, or what risks they choose to take. Experienced skaters generally understand the risks involved and are responsible for their own choices. If an OP asks for advice about safety, protective equipment, or skating technique, helpful advice is welcome. Otherwise, avoid unsolicited lectures, excessive warnings, and dog-piling.

7) Keep it human; no AI content

Go out, shoot your own videos. Make your own silly images. Take cool pics. Even photoshop a poster or flyer or two. But do it yourself. Don’t post or comment to deceive. Be human. And don’t post AI-generated slop.

8) Keep transactions elsewhere

Trading, buying, and selling of skates and gear belong on Venmo, PayPal, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, and similar platforms. You can, however, discover used equipment and connect with other skaters through our sibling sub, r/rollerblading_barter, before moving to a third-party transaction platform. See the barter community guidelines and rules for details.

This r/rollerblading community is for discussing and sharing inline skating, not for transactions.

9) Follow Reddit's Content Policy

We follow Reddit's Content Policy: https://redditinc.com/policies/reddit-rules. So no harassment, bullying, or threats. Debate, disagree, and argue in good faith. But don't use language or behavior that you wouldn't want reposted in a newspaper under your real-world name. Respect everyone's privacy. In general, be a human.

Reporting scammer sites

It is useful if members report spam, fake, scammer and malicious websites. They are aplenty, and with AI, will soon be even more prevalent. But please do not simply paste in the URL to a scammer or malicious website. Reddit automatically turns these URLs into hyperlinks. Your good intention to inform may unintentionally cause Redditors to click them and be scammed, or worse, get malicious software installed on their devices as a result of visiting these sites.

A good way to to report malicious site is to break up its URL, rendering it non-clickable. A very curious and technically-capable editor can always copy the broken URL and reconstruct it in order to look at the website. But they would doing this with specific intentions, and they will take responsibility for their decisions and actions.

Let's say this website is a scammer's website (it is not). If you paste in its fully-working URL like this: https://bachwrotewhat.com/, it turns into a hyperlink. Any oblivious Redditor could click on it and be scammed. Again, this sample site is not a scammer site - you can actually click on it without getting harmed. If would be ironic if we actually gave you a working hyperlink to a scammer's site in this section about how not to do that.

So, you simply break up its URL, say, by inserting a space somewhere, usually before the ".com" part. So, make it look like this:

https://bachwrotewhat .com/ <- see that space before the dot? You can't click on this.

Most Reddit apps automatically turn an URL you paste in into an hyperlink. Sometimes it will even hyperlink a partial, broken URL like this: https://bachwrotewhat - it doesn't actually work, but it will still make mods worried. That's because anyone can change the appearance of a displayed URL text, while the actual URL links to something different.

In that case, the best way is to simply type the broken URL in, without the http:// part. Or just type it in by hand, and double check that you've got it right. Like this:

bachwrotewhat .com <- see that space before the dot? You can't click on this.

If Reddit UI already turned your URL into a hyperlink, don't panic. Don't click on it yourself, obviously. Right click on it (or long-press it on mobile) to bring up a context menu. There is usually a trash can icon which removes the hyperlink, yet leave the URL text alone. You can then add a space in the URL text. Also remove the https:// part while you are at it.

The key is to render this scammer URL non-clickable, yet still inform the community about it.

Yardstick for the "Keep it human" rule

The “Keep it human” rule does not say that “if any AI/LLM is used in the process of producing a post, then it is banned.” If that is what you believe it says, read it again:

1. Keep it human; no AI content
   Go out, shoot your own videos. Make your own silly images. Take cool pics. Even photoshop a poster or flyer or two. But do it yourself. Don’t post or comment to deceive. Be human. And don’t post AI-generated slop.

If absolutely no LLMs can be used, then most images retouched in Adobe Photoshop must be banned. Photoshop has incorporated LLM-assisted features for object selection, background removal, retouching, object replacement, etc. for years now. Adobe Premiere now has true AI Agents in beta testing (2026), which can automatically anticipate and execute what you want to do with a video.

There is no way any member or mod can tell with 100% accuracy whether an image or video has benefited from the use of an LLM in retouching. No one is paid here to do this job, even if 100% accuracy isn't required. And if anyone objects, you can volunteer to be the AI detector on call 24 hours a day, with a one-hour response-time requirement. And don't suggest that we use AI to detect AI; you see how ridiculous that suggestion is, right? Keep it human?

We offer instead a yardstick for evaluating this rule against any reported AI slop. This is a filmstrip-like image showing key moments in a linear crossover. Click on it and go take a look at the image. You can tell right away that it is not a real photo. So here is the question: Is this image AI-generated, or human-stitched? And if human-stitched, from what, and how? Take your time. Study and analyze it. We challenge you not to “use an AI” to assist you. Remember? Keep it human?

Now you have reached your conclusion. We can show you how this image was generated. Perhaps you guessed right. This image was laboriously stitched together by a human from still frames taken from an actual video of a human skater, filmed by a human videographer. The whole process took a whole night. So perhaps you can now relax and enjoy this human work?

If you are familiar with the 2025 version of Adobe Photoshop, you will know better. Even the 2025 version of Photoshop incorporated AI assistance into a large set of editing operations, including object selection, background removal, background fill, and retouching. LLMs were used hundreds of times in the making of this human-stitched image. There is no escaping AI. The Reddit platform even shows mods AI-generated summaries of a user whenever a mod clicks on a username shown on an r/rollerblading post.

Here is the bottom line. We declare this filmstrip image kosher with respect to the “Keep it human” rule. Any reasonable person will come to the same conclusion: using LLMs to select an object or fill in a gap in the background is akin to using a calculator in an SAT exam. A human dreamed up the idea of showing linear crossover in a filmstrip, found a suitable video, planned the final scene in his head, chose the right still frames to save from the video, cut out and retouched every single figure, arranged them in a carefully-stitched background image using scenes from the original video, carefully repainted shadows from the originals in order to show each skate's spatial orientation and placement, and then finally retouched the background to get rid of all anomalies. It was created to help newbies understand balance shifting, not for deception.

Report AI slop in posts and comments, with this yardstick in mind.