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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.

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 296,324 views 0 likes	Last Post by Kie Today, 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 33,290 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 25,867 views 0 likes	Last Post by Jan2011 12-14-2013, 05:48 AM
Using sheild every5m to troll? by q1l4YY8ewS14wHR Started by q1l4YY8ewS14wHR, 12-14-2013, 10:30 PM	16 responses 2,170 views 0 likes	Last Post by ImaVampireK 12-16-2013, 02:29 PM
Closed: MMR by PandaZzz Started by PandaZzz, 12-16-2013, 01:26 PM	3 responses 1,857 views 0 likes	Last Post by Heh_ 12-16-2013, 01:38 PM
Demoted From Being Able to Obtain Arcana Items to Ancient Items by 2hard2pickaname Started by 2hard2pickaname, 12-14-2013, 07:56 AM	12 responses 2,638 views 0 likes	Last Post by StaticHS 12-16-2013, 01:35 PM
What do you do with your commons? by Infiltrator Started by Infiltrator, 12-16-2013, 03:02 AM	16 responses 2,010 views 0 likes	Last Post by Guest 12-16-2013, 12:50 PM
North America dotA by rankZ Started by rankZ, 12-16-2013, 11:24 AM	6 responses 1,501 views 0 likes	Last Post by wachon1992 12-16-2013, 12:45 PM
Closed: My thoughts on the new Match Making by IsPep Started by IsPep, 12-15-2013, 09:16 PM	7 responses 1,339 views 0 likes	Last Post by Kryil- 12-16-2013, 12:36 PM
Closed: sssssss (or another ladder thread) by Raspharus Started by Raspharus, 12-16-2013, 11:50 AM	4 responses 6 views 0 likes	Last Post by katsaroulhs 12-16-2013, 12:14 PM
WN gives party abandons!!! by MJK Started by MJK, 12-16-2013, 09:27 AM	6 responses 1,021 views 0 likes	Last Post by Animations 12-16-2013, 11:32 AM
Closed: Russian on EU buys wrong item. blames me saying i stole it. has 8 others report me. by aatcuddles Started by aatcuddles, 12-16-2013, 09:56 AM	1 response 718 views 0 likes	Last Post by Darude-Sandstorm 12-16-2013, 10:29 AM
Closed: Matchmaking - Captain Mode - Region Lock(IP trace on player) by Claire Farron Started by Claire Farron, 12-16-2013, 10:03 AM	3 responses 1,284 views 0 likes	Last Post by Kryil- 12-16-2013, 10:18 AM

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