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No discussion, sharing or referencing illegal software such as hacks, keygen, cracks and pirated software.
No offensive contents, including but not limited to, racism, gore or pornography.
No excessive spam/meme, i.e. copious one liners in a short period of time, typing with all caps or posting meme responses (text/image).
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No link spamming or signature advertisements for content not specific to Dota 2.
No Dota 2 key requests, sell, trade etc.
You may not create multiple accounts for any purpose, including ban evasion, unless expressly permitted by a moderator.

Please search before posting. One thread per issue. Do not create another thread if there is an existing one already.
Before posting anything, make sure you check out all sticky threads (e.g., this). Do not create new threads about closed ones.
It is extremely important that you post in correct forum section.

Balance discussion only in Misc.
All art related (such as hero model) feedbacks go to Art Feedback Forum.
All matchmaking feedback should go here: Matchmaking Feedback
All report/low priority issues should go here: Commend/Report/Ban Feedback
No specific workshop item feedback. These should go to workshop page of that item.
When posting in non-bugs section (such as this), use [Bugs], [Discussion] or [Suggestion] prefix in your thread name.

Before posting any bug, test it in latest DotA map or Latest DotA Test Map and make sure it is actually a bug.
You can also find references in PlayDota Guides and PlayDota Mechanics.
Follow Bug Reporting Guide when reporting bugs.

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All rules are meant to augment common sense, please use them when not conflicted with aforementioned policies.

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Sticky: Matchmaking Abuse Report Thread by Kryil- Started by Kryil-, 04-07-2014, 03:33 PM	1,049 responses 295,548 views 0 likes	Last Post by materia3133 05-08-2021, 05:20 PM
Closed, Sticky: When reporting problems, please always share Match ID or Steam community profile by fletcher Started by fletcher, 05-14-2014, 12:06 PM	17 responses 33,175 views 0 likes	Last Post by Kryil- 06-08-2014, 12:15 AM
Closed, Sticky: Rules of the Dota 2 Community section - READ BEFORE POSTING by Jan2011 Started by Jan2011, 12-14-2013, 04:48 AM	0 responses 25,793 views 0 likes	Last Post by Jan2011 12-14-2013, 04:48 AM
IF YOU DISAGREE WITH THE MUTE SYSTEM, PETITION HERE!!! by Gutsy Started by Gutsy, 07-04-2013, 01:40 PM	42 responses 4,970 views 0 likes	Last Post by Gutsy 07-13-2013, 01:49 PM
Game Release and Change by Gutsy Started by Gutsy, 07-09-2013, 09:18 PM	14 responses 2,645 views 0 likes	Last Post by Gutsy 07-13-2013, 01:48 PM
Solo MM by john_volkov Started by john_volkov, 07-12-2013, 08:39 PM	14 responses 1,934 views 0 likes	Last Post by john_volkov 07-13-2013, 12:43 PM
DotA Down? by Clup Started by Clup, 07-13-2013, 10:36 AM	6 responses 945 views 0 likes	Last Post by tigerfox22 07-13-2013, 12:15 PM
The worse you play, the best item you'll get? by Shmendrich Started by Shmendrich, 07-13-2013, 04:56 AM	16 responses 2,268 views 0 likes	Last Post by Ryuukun 07-13-2013, 11:46 AM
received 4 day low prioritet for long pick by epic_fail Started by epic_fail, 07-13-2013, 12:40 AM	5 responses 1,197 views 0 likes	Last Post by -InSaNe- 07-13-2013, 11:29 AM
This is DotA 2 Matchmaking. by Mvstery Started by Mvstery, 07-13-2013, 09:14 AM	12 responses 1,965 views 0 likes	Last Post by uzztdrd2 07-13-2013, 10:49 AM
Displaying Flag of Country by skln Started by skln, 07-10-2013, 03:13 PM	19 responses 2,898 views 0 likes	Last Post by skln 07-13-2013, 10:27 AM
Day 2 and still no server for the vast region of SA by Lenciades Started by Lenciades, 07-12-2013, 09:51 AM	14 responses 2,565 views 0 likes	Last Post by Krenicus 07-13-2013, 09:48 AM
Dota 2 searching for network / No main client update as of yet please fix by Jinru Started by Jinru, 07-12-2013, 11:47 AM	33 responses 14,014 views 0 likes	Last Post by ExecutorQ3 07-13-2013, 06:06 AM

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