Sharing replays and discussing replays on the forums are a minefield and highly inconsistent. I gathered community intel to provide a better understanding of the application of the rules.
The core issue is that post get removed without any reason, so I did some digging and found the following:
The inconsistent rules:
Don’t name anyone under any circumstances, except yourself.
Exception: Throw Bots in Stadium?
Stadium Overrun with Cheaters - #2 by Zaoth-21400
You can indirectly identify a player, like “the Hanzo on the red team”
This is allowed as long no one is reporting your post. Mods will delete your post if someone flags it.
Source:
Several of my post in the past got flagged and deleted that way in hours. Saw the same behavior with several other posts.
A post which got not flagged and is still up:
How is this balanced or fair or not cheating?
Now we get the finer and more complicated details:
What is the line between “constructive analysis” and “shaming”?
Post removed because it talked about server issues:
Why is this distinction so important?
Overwatch is a team game. If I want to have constructive feedback, it exist not in a vacuum, it always relates to my and the enemy team. If the conclusion for someone is “You did your job well in this situation, but your supports struggled to keep up” are we already shaming and one report away from the post being deleted?
My conclusion:
If just a single person in the community flags your post, your post will be removed.
Sidenote: So far I didn’t got any bans/muting because of sharing of replays.