Community Guidelines – Promote Fair Engagement
Welcome to Tportstick, where precision meets passion, and every tap, combo, or stick rotation tells a story of strategy, learning, and mastery. Whether you’re a pro-level grinder, a modding enthusiast, or someone just discovering the thrill of optimized play, this space is your headquarters for connection. Our guidelines are here to keep Tportstick’s digital community open, inspiring, and laser-focused on fair engagement for all.
Founded by Yvendra Velmoria in Tampa, Florida, Tportstick has always grown from a simple yet powerful intention: to help players enhance their performance through insight, ethics, and innovation. From stick-based controller mods to esports coverage and optimization hacks, our community thrives on collaboration—and respect is the starting combo for everything we do.
Why These Guidelines Exist
This is a place built to support, not compete in negativity. Whether you’re discussing build guides, game mechanics, meta shifts, or pro-strategy breakdowns, our goal is to keep conversations clear, motivating, and safe. We stand for hope-led gaming: a belief that gaming can bring the best out of us when shared in fairness and integrity.
These guidelines help all voices be part of the dialogue—whether you’re here to sharpen your tech skill or just to watch a VOD and unwind. We want every controller clutch to be met with encouragement, every question to be respected, and every mistake to be seen as part of the journey, not a point of ridicule.
What We Value
We believe tools and mods are powerful—but only in the hands of users who respect what power means. That’s why our community stands firmly on these values:
- Respect: Every gamer brings different skills, platforms, and perspectives. Honor all of them.
- Precision: Truthful, well-sourced advice beats short-sighted hype. Share only what supports smart play.
- Curiosity: Ask, tinker, fail, retry—and share while you’re at it. We all learn more through open curiosity than closed opinions.
- Fairness: Modding for improvement? Great. Modding for deception? Not here. We believe in strategy, not shortcuts that compromise integrity.
- Optimism: Gaming should light something up in us—keep that pilot light burning in how you speak and share with others.
Engaging in the Community
Think of this space as your digital team lounge—headsets off, sticks on the table, vibes respectful. Whether you’re asking for help on your stick responsiveness settings or critiquing a build-video breakdown, always aim for useful, clear, and kind conversation. Here’s how to engage gracefully:
- Stick to the topic. Mod threads stay about mods; esports coverage threads stay on players, games, and events — not personal attacks.
- Tag sources where you can. If you’re referencing a technique from a player, cite them or the stream timestamp if possible.
- Give credit. Someone inspired your mod? Mention them—it lifts the whole community up when we spotlight quality effort.
- Assume good intent. In gaming, slang, tone, and timing can all get lost in a chat. When unsure, ask before reacting.
This isn’t a space where you need perfect grammar, the best tech, or flawless sticks. It’s a space where people help each other elevate.
Respectful Participation
We have a zero-tolerance approach to harassment, slurs, bullying, gatekeeping, or antagonizing behavior. If your critique includes insults, sarcasm in bad faith, or dominance for its own sake—it doesn’t belong here. Authentic rivals know respect breeds better matches. The same goes for idea-sharing: healthy disagreement is welcomed. Disrespect isn’t.
If you wouldn’t say it face-to-face to a teammate after a hard-fought loss, don’t type it here.
Moderation and Fairness in Practice
Moderation exists to keep the gameplay clean—not to silence. When content is removed, or accounts reviewed, it’s not about control—it’s about clarity. We aim to protect all players’ right to show up, speak up, and share perspectives without being drowned out by noise or negativity. We prune harmful comments like you fine-tune your stick settings: always for better, more responsive engagement.
See a flagrant violation? Alert us gently. We handle reports quietly and thoughtfully, because no creative team wins by shouting—it wins by listening and adjusting. For support, drop us a message at [email protected].
Crediting Content and Proper Sharing
Gaming is rooted in remix culture—but if you’re borrowing someone’s tactical breakdown or mod guide, credit the creator by linking to the full source. This includes screenshots, controller layouts, esports coverage, and even tournament tactics. Sharing something cool? Attribute where it came from.
Always ensure you’re sharing in a way that strengthens the conversation, not just repeats it. Strive to be the signal in the noise.
Privacy Shields Up
We want our users to feel safe posting ideas, progress logs, builds, questions, and techniques. That requires discretion and care:
- Never share someone else’s personal info (gaming handles, images, stream schedules) without their consent.
- Avoid revealing your own sensitive data, especially in high-traffic threads or open comments.
For more on how we collect and respect user data, visit our Privacy Policy.
Gamers Build Better Together
Whether you’re innovating with your stick setup, optimizing combo timing, tackling an esports bracket, or decoding the new patch meta—we want you to play alongside others. Collaboration creates clarity. Through the ups and downs of ranked mode, controller drift, power surges, and banter—we stay in it together.
If you’re here because you want to share, compete fairly, learn boldly, mod ethically, and connect openly—you’re already one of us.
From Our Founder’s Hands, to Yours
Yvendra Velmoria founded Tportstick with a soldering iron in one hand and a dream in the other: to make high-level stick modding and gameplay insights available to anyone with passion. Yvendra believes that when gaming is rooted in fairness, knowledge, and mutual support, it becomes art. His direction continues to shape this space with a blend of ingenuity, discipline, and accessibility.
If you want to explore how that idea came to be, follow the energy at Dream Igniter.
Reach Out, Game On
We’re based in sunny Tampa, Florida—right at 3388 Heavens Way, Tampa, FL 33610. Our doors are open (virtually) from Monday to Friday, 9 AM–5 PM, whether you’re reporting an issue, proposing a content idea, or just curious about joining the modding scene.
Your thoughts matter. Leave us a line at [email protected] or call us at +1 941-893-9268. We’ll always respond with intention and respect.
The Endgame is Integrity
This isn’t just about building sticks, climbing ranks, or breaking meta—it’s about building each other. The way we engage is the legacy we leave. Keep it kind, keep it fair, keep it smart—and we’ll keep this community one step ahead in all the ways that truly count.