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PERMITTED:
Headline Health encourages our readers to share their views on our content with our hundreds of thousands of readers in civil discourse.
PROHIBITED:
Prohibited content will be DELETED and may result in a PERMANENT BAN:
- Name calling – by far the most common reason for blocked posts (Examples: demon, Nazi, douche, idiot, moron.) Name calling typically leads to a permanent ban on the first offense.
- Vulgarity, personal attacks, questioning someone’s faith or patriotism
- Threats of personal harm or blatantly false information that may cause personal harm
- Off-topic posts including complaints about moderation
- Commercial posts and links to other websites
- Encouraging or promoting activity that is criminal or potentially harmful
- Information or speculation on another person’s physical or mental health; impersonation
- Personally identifiable information such as anyone’s email, phone number, or address, including your own
- ALL CAPS, misspelling to avoid filters, non-English content
- Flooding the site. Please try to make your point in 1-2 posts. Additional discussion within reason is fine as long as it stays on topic.
- Any comment marked by Disqus as “Toxic”
- Anything else that deviates from civil discourse
- Any of the above where poster was ‘just kidding’
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