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No flaming or derogatory remarks, directly or through insinuation.
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).
No trolling, including but not limited to, flame incitation, user provocation or false information distribution.
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.

In case you object some action by a moderator, please contact him directly through PM and explain your concerns politely. If you are still unable to resolve the issue, contact an administrator. Do not drag these issues in public.

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	1,142 responses 298,291 views 0 likes	Last Post by Kie 06-26-2022, 11:09 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 33,399 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 25,940 views 0 likes	Last Post by Jan2011 12-14-2013, 04:48 AM
What the hell happened to the number of reports? by DeviousKid45 Started by DeviousKid45, 10-05-2016, 12:45 PM	2 responses 734 views 0 likes	Last Post by pent1um 10-06-2016, 04:56 AM
Courier Feeding abuse by Mycheesecake Started by Mycheesecake, 02-14-2016, 06:31 PM	8 responses 1,992 views 0 likes	Last Post by phormix 10-06-2016, 12:10 AM
Using hacks by NovaCoil Started by NovaCoil, 07-22-2016, 05:37 PM	6 responses 1,166 views 0 likes	Last Post by legenda296 10-05-2016, 06:43 AM
Low Priority bot abuse still going strong by CounterMe Started by CounterMe, 10-03-2016, 10:56 PM	0 responses 1,136 views 0 likes	Last Post by CounterMe 10-03-2016, 10:56 PM
Adding daily heroes challenge for smurfer(i hate smurf account) by moonblanc Started by moonblanc, 10-03-2016, 01:57 AM	2 responses 780 views 0 likes	Last Post by moonblanc 10-03-2016, 05:00 PM
All Pick, not SINGLE DRAFT for LPQ GAMES by Iratus Started by Iratus, 10-03-2016, 08:25 AM	3 responses 698 views 0 likes	Last Post by Crowfeather 10-03-2016, 03:01 PM
No more reports, have to go here by Iratus Started by Iratus, 10-03-2016, 11:44 AM	0 responses 787 views 0 likes	Last Post by Iratus 10-03-2016, 11:44 AM
pull the triger by marco2016 Started by marco2016, 10-01-2016, 05:56 PM	0 responses 456 views 0 likes	Last Post by marco2016 10-01-2016, 05:56 PM
Unfair matchmaking system by Shokaku Started by Shokaku, 10-01-2016, 11:01 AM	0 responses 1,081 views 0 likes	Last Post by Shokaku 10-01-2016, 11:01 AM
spam bots hijacked all area chats by cookiesz Started by cookiesz, 09-28-2016, 03:40 AM	4 responses 827 views 0 likes	Last Post by legenda296 10-01-2016, 03:37 AM

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