When you become a member of the HBO.com community, you will be able to interact with other HBO participants by creating and participating in discussions and polls, rating content and commenting on all that HBO has to offer. Your contributions will be an integral part of the new site experience. Our editorial staff will actively participate with you in discussions about our programming and site content, highlighting the best submissions side by side with the our content.
Every HBO.com user has a voice, and your voice level represents how active you are in the HBO.com community. You'll start as a Fresh Voice. Get involved and graduate to an Active Voice. Prove wit, knowledge and know-how to be promoted to an Established Voice.
In order to improve the experience and offer new features to all users, the new HBO.com is a completely clean slate. All HBO.com users will start as a Fresh Voice and will need to become active, quality members of the community in order to graduate to an Active or Established Voice.
Graduating from Fresh to Active or Active to Established is a measure of not just the quantity of your participation but the quality as well. The length of your membership, your number of posts and their overall rating all factor into your Voice Level.
The HBO.com Community Standards are the behavioral guidelines for which the HBO community is managed. The legal version of these rules are also included in the HBO Terms of Service.
Ratings are calculated as HBO.com users promote or demote content using the + and - buttons.
To create a discussion or poll, first navigate to the HBO.com forum you would like to contribute to. You may do this by accessing Talk from the bottom toolbar navigation of any site ore by selecting Talk from the top navigation. Once you've selected a Forum, click Create a Discussion and select Discussion or Poll. Within the overlay that appears, enter a title and description for your discussion and click Post. If you elected to create a Poll, you'll also need to enter possible responses. When you're done, click Post.
After creating a discussion or poll, there is a 15 minute period during which you can edit your post. To edit a discussion or poll, click Edit next to the title of your post. If another member of the HBO.com community participates in your discussion or poll prior to completion of this 15 minute period, you will no longer be able to edit your post.
At this time, users can not remove a discussion or poll.
If your comment or discussion has been removed from the site it is likely that it is in violation of our Terms of Service and/or Community Standards. If you feel that your content has been removed erroneously, you may email siteadmin@hbo.com.
HBO.com looks to elevate the content of the community throughout the website by placing it on homepages or other promotional placements. In order to do so, we cannot allow users to create discussions or polls that contain profanity. Profane language will be recognized and either removed or replaced.
In order to rate content on HBO.com, you must be a logged in registered user. To rate community content, simply use the + and - buttons next to discussions and polls to either increase or decrease the overall content rating.
To find community content that you are interested in, select your program of interest and then select Talk from the bottom toolbar navigation of that site. Once on this Talk page, you'll see a selection of some of the most commented on and most recent news items for the selected program. You may sort through content on this and the "View All" page using the sort arrows at the top. Alternatively, you may access all the site's forums by selecting Talk in the top navigation on all pages of the site. To narrow your focus to a specific program that you are interested in, select the program from the Forums drop down.
Yes. You can save your favorite Discussions to your dashboard. To save a discussion, just click the Add button. If you don't see Add, you may need to click the title of the Discussion first in order to reach the dedicated page for that Discussion. Your dashboard allows you to collect your favorite videos and discussions from across the site, and it's always a click away. Just click your display name in the upper right corner of the site to access your dashboard.
To flag inappropriate content for review, just click the button labeled Flag. If you don't see the button, you may need to click the title of the item in order to reach the dedicated page for that item. Once reported, HBO administrators will review the content and determine if it should be removed.
If your post appeared on a home page or other promotional placement, congratulations HBO felt your contribution was exceptional and chose to highlight it.
Want to suggest a way to improve the community experience? Email the community manager at siteadmin@hbo.com.
You can reach the site administrator by emailing siteadmin@hbo.com.
While there are many new features available in the redesigned HBO.com, some features from the old site were retired. If there's a feature that you really can't live without, let us know by emailing us at: siteadmin@hbo.com.
To add a comment to a discussion, click Comment beneath the discussion. If you don't see the Comment button, you may need to click the title of the discussion to reach the dedicated page for that discussion.
If your account has been suspended it is most likely because you have violated our Terms of Service and/or Community Standards. You should have received an email stating the reason for the suspension. If you feel your account has been suspended erroneously, please email siteadmin@hbo.com.
While we value the contributions all HBO.com users have made over the years, we've decided to relaunch the site with a clean slate. Beginning our journey together from scratch, will enable the entire community to shape the new community experience together.
When you become a member of the HBO.com community, you will be able to submit user-generated content by creating and participating in discussions, polls and stories. When submitting a Story, users are allowed to upload an image or video in addition to text content.
All stories are read and reviewed by the HBO.com editorial staff. The stories that best reflect the goals and/or tone of the surrounding program will be selected for inclusion on the website. HBO may elect to only include a portion or your submitted content to the site either based upon an editorial decision or because part of your submission did not comply with our Terms of Service or Community Standards.
At this time, we cannot contact you when your content has been published. You'll need to check back to the site.
If you are unable to post your content to the site, review the specific error message you are receiving and revise the content accordingly.
After creating a discussion or poll, there is a 15 minute period during which you can edit your post. To edit a discussion or poll, click Edit next to the title of your post. If another member of the HBO.com community participates in your discussion or poll during the 15 minute period, you will no longer be able to edit your post.
HBO.com looks to elevate the content of the community throughout the website by placing it on homepages or other promotional placements. In order to do so, we cannot allow users to create discussions or polls that contain profanity. Profane language will be recognized and either removed or replaced.
At this time, you cannot turn off notifications that your content has been deleted.
Welcome to the new HBO.com. We hope that you are enjoying your experience on the redesigned site. In order to allow for continuous improvement of the site experience, we'd like you to share your thoughts and impressions by participating in a quick survey.