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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, 04:33 PM	1,060 responses 296,363 views 0 likes	Last Post by Kie 11-29-2021, 08:36 AM
Closed, Sticky: When reporting problems, please always share Match ID or Steam community profile by fletcher Started by fletcher, 05-14-2014, 01:06 PM	17 responses 33,291 views 0 likes	Last Post by Kryil- 06-08-2014, 01:15 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 25,868 views 0 likes	Last Post by Jan2011 12-14-2013, 05:48 AM
A few updates to the item system need it. by john_volkov Started by john_volkov, 04-21-2014, 05:01 AM	6 responses 1,155 views 0 likes	Last Post by ned_ballad 04-21-2014, 09:13 PM
Closed: game abandoned due to crash by Po3ion Started by Po3ion, 04-21-2014, 06:43 AM	7 responses 1,207 views 0 likes	Last Post by Envoy 04-21-2014, 02:14 PM
Closed: Steam Community Ban by NewToTheWWW Started by NewToTheWWW, 04-21-2014, 09:45 AM	3 responses 2,358 views 0 likes	Last Post by Kryil- 04-21-2014, 10:33 AM
Closed: Camera distance and suspended by Frogga Started by Frogga, 04-21-2014, 07:54 AM	7 responses 1,506 views 0 likes	Last Post by miambox 04-21-2014, 09:05 AM
Closed: Dota 2 Patch Discussion 4th April 2014 by Jan2011 Started by Jan2011, 04-01-2014, 01:20 AM	25 responses 8,142 views 0 likes	Last Post by James2253 04-21-2014, 08:26 AM
Closed: Randomly get reported into low priority by Varia Started by Varia, 04-18-2014, 08:25 PM	5 responses 869 views 0 likes	Last Post by Varia 04-21-2014, 05:22 AM
Did they reset mute times? by TomTomNT Started by TomTomNT, 04-20-2014, 03:42 PM	4 responses 670 views 0 likes	Last Post by !giveaway 04-21-2014, 01:44 AM
Closed: How to fix servers filled with 200+ ping foreigners by DeFy Started by DeFy, 04-20-2014, 04:29 PM	1 response 718 views 0 likes	Last Post by $hanks 04-20-2014, 04:31 PM
Closed: What's wrong with wanting to dodge games with players that are KNOWN to feed/troll by brobrobrobro Started by brobrobrobro, 04-20-2014, 03:33 PM	4 responses 835 views 0 likes	Last Post by Jan2011 04-20-2014, 03:42 PM
Closed: everything about DotA in just under 10 minutes by Falc0nPuls3 Started by Falc0nPuls3, 04-20-2014, 02:59 PM	0 responses 592 views 0 likes	Last Post by Falc0nPuls3 04-20-2014, 02:59 PM

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