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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).
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.

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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	1,036 responses 294,852 views 0 likes	Last Post by pleasefortheloveofgod 01-16-2021, 01:39 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 33,062 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, 05:48 AM	0 responses 25,730 views 0 likes	Last Post by Jan2011 12-14-2013, 05:48 AM
WHY A GAME FINALIZATION CANNOT BE JUDGED BY PERFORMANCE OF THE GAME? by Crystal Nova - lce Started by Crystal Nova - lce, 12-25-2020, 01:27 PM	1 response 29 views 0 likes	Last Post by Crystal Nova - lce 01-08-2021, 09:11 AM
smurf trolling lc afk jungle by Chad'son Started by Chad'son, 01-06-2021, 12:35 PM	0 responses 15 views 0 likes	Last Post by Chad'son 01-06-2021, 12:35 PM
Smurf / toxic behavior / griefing by Chad'son Started by Chad'son, 01-05-2021, 06:24 PM	0 responses 16 views 0 likes	Last Post by Chad'son 01-05-2021, 06:24 PM
smurf/account buyer/game ruiner by Straylian Started by Straylian, 12-14-2020, 12:03 AM	4 responses 45 views 0 likes	Last Post by Straylian 01-05-2021, 05:28 PM
[Suggestion] I don't wanna play a game who has VAC ban in their profile because by Angelus Started by Angelus, 01-02-2021, 11:51 AM	1 response 26 views 0 likes	Last Post by Crystal Nova - lce 01-04-2021, 12:03 AM
Take power away from griefers. by sunandsteel Started by sunandsteel, 12-29-2020, 01:47 PM	2 responses 32 views 0 likes	Last Post by Crystal Nova - lce 01-04-2021, 12:02 AM
Where are my reports? by sunandsteel Started by sunandsteel, 01-03-2021, 08:05 PM	0 responses 17 views 0 likes	Last Post by sunandsteel 01-03-2021, 08:05 PM
Booster by Chad'son Started by Chad'son, 01-01-2021, 06:03 AM	0 responses 11 views 0 likes	Last Post by Chad'son 01-01-2021, 06:03 AM
Reasons why i will Quit dota 2 forever by Chad'son Started by Chad'son, 01-01-2021, 05:02 AM	1 response 26 views 0 likes	Last Post by Chad'son 01-01-2021, 05:03 AM
Bullied by 4 in solo queue by leftishness Started by leftishness, 12-19-2020, 08:20 PM	6 responses 61 views 1 like	Last Post by hjjk 12-31-2020, 02:14 AM

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